# COTTER OIL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36331`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COTTER OIL COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 9006 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT OF 1976 ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6991E, AS AMENDED    BY THE HAZARDOUS AND SOLID WASTE ADMENDMENTS OF 1984.     2. COTTER OIL COMPANY                                           MOUNTAIN HOME, ARKANSAS                                      FACILITY:                                                    CANEY GENERAL STORE                                          HCR 66, HIGHWAY 14 SOUTH                                     YELLVILLE, ARKANSAS                                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE I, 42 U.S.C.SEC-     TIONS 6991 - 6991I, BY 1) FAILING TO REPORT A SUSPECTED      RELEASE WITHIN 24 HOURS OF DISCOVERY, 2) FAILING TO IN-      VESTIGATE IMMEDIATELY AND CONFIRM A SUSPECTED RELEASE,       AND 3) FAILING TO CONDUCT RELEASE DETECTION FOR TANKS.    4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 9006 AND 9006(A), EPA      PROPOSES A COMPLIANCE ORDER THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE RE-       SPONDENT TO SUBMIT WRITTEN EVIDENCE TO EPA THAT 1) RE-       SPONDENT HAS ADOPTED PROCEDURES WHICH SET FORTH INSTRUCT-    IONS TO RESPONDENT'S OPERATORS IN REPORTING SUSPECTED RE-    LEASES, 2) RESPONDENT HAS ADOPTED PROCEDURES WHICH SET       FORTH INSTRUCTIONS IN CONDUCTING RELEASE DETECTION AND       CONFIRMATION OF A SUSPECTED RELEASE, AND 3) AND THAT RE-     LEASE DETECTION IS CONDUCTED FOR ALL USTS IN ACCORDANCE      TO REGULATIONS. EPA ALSO PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY IN THE     AMOUNT OF $19,688 FOR THE ALLEGED

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