# ALON USA, LP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42208`
- **Case Number:** 06-2002-4803
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALON USA, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN    WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTIONS 1321(B)(6)(A)(I)       AND 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL POLLUTION ACT    OF 1990.                                                  2. ALON USA, LP                                                 CRUDE OIL TRANSMISSION LINE SEGMENT BETWEEN HEARNE AND       SHIRO, APPROXIMATELY 5.5 MILES SOUTH OF BEDIAS AND 2.5       MILES NORTH OF SINGLETON, TX. WITHIN THE WILLIAM FISHER      SURVEY, A-211                                                BEDIAS, GRIMES COUNTY, TEXAS 77831                        3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE OF 245 BARRELS OF OIL      FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON AN UNNAMED INTERMITTENT       STREAM AND AND ADJOINING SHORELINES.                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND       311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY     OF UP TO $27,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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