# FINA OIL & CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36796`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0510
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $178K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $100K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FINA OIL & CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET SEQ.              2. FINA OIL & CHEMICAL COMPANY                                  1818 HIGHWAY 134 AT MILLER CUTOFF ROAD                       LA PORTE, TEXAS 77571                                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY 1)      OPERATION OF A BOILER BURNING HAZARDOUS WASTE WITH AN IN-    COMPLETE OR AN INACCURATE CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE, 2)    EXCEEDANCES OF LIMITS ESTABLISHED IN THE CERTIFICATION OF    PRECOMPLIANCE AND COMPLIANCE TEST NOTIFICATION DURING        COMPLIANCE TESTING, 3) FAILURE TO CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR       AND RECORD EMISSIONS OF CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) AND OXYGEN,     4) OPERATION OF A HAZARDOUS WASTE BOILER WITHOUT AN ADE-`    QUATE AUTOMATIC WASTE FEED CUTOFF SYSTEM (AWFCS), 5)         FAILURE TO CONDUCT TESTS OF THE AUTOMATIC WASTE FEED CUT-    OFF SYSTEM FOR A BOILER BURNING HAZARDOUS WASTE, 6) FAIL-    URE TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE OPERATING RECORD      FOR A BOILER BURNING HAZARDOUS WASTE, 7) FAILURE TO DE-      VELOP AND/OR UPDATE FACILITY WASTE ANALYSIS PLAN, IN-        SPECTION PLAN AND SCHEDULE, PERSONNEL TRAINING PLAN, AND     CONTINGENCY PLAN, AND 8) OPERATION OF AN INCINERATOR         BURNING HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT A PERMIT OR INTERIM STAT-    US.                                                       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $463,

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