# TEXACO CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36386`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0082
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TEXACO CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 113(D) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT ( CAA ), AS AMENDED,     42 U.S.C. SECTION 7413(D).                                2. TEXACO CHEMICAL COMPANY                                      FM 366 AND HOGABOOM ROAD                                     PORT NECHES, TEXAS                                        3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTION 61.242-6(A)    IN FOUR SEPARATE INSTANCES BY FAILING TO EQUIP AND SEAL      WITH A PLUG OR SIMILAR CLOSURE DEVISE, AT ALL APPROPRIATE    TIMES, THE 4 VALVES WHICH WERE IN VHAP/BENZENE SERVICE.   IN THE AMENDED COMPLAINT THE RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION        OF TACB REGULATION VI, SECTION 116.4 IN 3 SEPARATE IN-       STANCES BY FAILING TO EQUIP AND SEAL WITH A CAP, BLIND       FLANGE, PLUG, SECOND VALVE, OR SIMILAR CLOSURE DEVICE, AT    ALL APPROPRIATE TIMES, THE 3 VALVES WHICH WERE IN BUTA-      DIENE SERVICE.                                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(D) OF THE CAA, EPA     PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $149,000.

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