# ASAMERA OIL, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47709`
- **Case Number:** 08-1983-0005
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $75K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASAMERA OIL, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF THE CASE                                             THIS IS A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST ASAMERA OIL (U.S.), INC.,  PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(B) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT, 42 U.S.C.  7413(B), SEEKING COMPLIANCE WITH A PERMIT EPA ISSUED TO      ASAMERA PURSUANT TO EPA'S PREVENTION OF SIGNIFICANT DETER-   IORATION (PSD) REGULATIONS, 40 C.F.R. 52.21(I), FOR EXPAN-   SION OF A REFINERY ASAMERA OWNS AND OPERATES IN COMMERCE     CITY, COLORADO, AN INDUSTRIAL SUBURB OF DENVER.                CAUSE OF ACTION                                                 THIS ACTION ALLEGES THAT ASAMERA HAS FAILED TO OPERATE  A SULFUR RECOVERY PLANT AT ITS COMMERCE CITY REFINERY FOR    OVER FIFTEEN MONTHS IN VIOLATION OF CONDITION 2 OF ITS PSD   PERMIT AND THAT SUCH VIOLATION HAS CONTINUED FOR MORE THAN   THIRTY DAYS AFTER NOTIFICATION TO THE SOURCE AND THE STATE   OF COLORADO.                                                      EPA ISSUED A PSD PERMIT TO ASAMERA ON FEBRUARY 28, 1979  AUTHORIZING THE INSTALLATION OF A CRUDE VACUUM UNIT AND DE-  SULFURIZER REFORMER AT THE COMMERCE CITY REFINERY.  CONDI-  TION 2 OF THE PERMIT REQUIRED ASAMERA TO CONTROL SULFUR      EMISSIONS FROM THE EXPANSION BY INSTALLING A SULFUR RECOVERY PLANT CONSISTING OF AN AMINE SCRUBBING UNIT AND A CLAUS SUL- FUR RECOVERY PLANT.  BOTH OF THESE UNITS WERE TO BE OPERA-   TING IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRESCRIBED EMISSION STANDARDS BY     JANUARY 31, 1982.                                                 ASAMERA DID NOT START OPERATING T

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