# WALLACE, RICHARD & POWDER RIVER CRUDE PROCESSORS
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49138`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0150
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- POWDER RIVER CRUDE PROCESSORS (complaint) (settlement)
- WALLACE, RICHARD (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/01/92:  THIS IS A DIRECT CIVIL REFERRAL TO THE DOJ      FOR ACTION AGAINST RICHARD WALLACE AND POWDER RIVER CRUDE    PROCESSORS.  THE DEFENDANT IN THIS MATTER HANDLED AND        TRANSPORTED REFINERY WASTES TO THE POWDER RIVER CRUDE        PROCESSORS LOCATED NEAR GLENROCK, WYOMING IN NATRONA COUNTY. THESE WASTES HAVE BEEN ABANDONED SINCE 1988 IN OPEN UNLINED  PITS, ABOVEGROUND TANKS, AND OTHER IMPOUNDMENTS,             CONSTITUTING AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO     THE ENVIRONMENT AND SURROUNDING WILDLIFE.  ON 09/17/91 THE   EPA ISSUED AN ORDER UNDER RCRA 7003 TO RICHARD WALLACE AND   POWDER RIVER CRUDE PROCESSORS TO ABATE THE ENDANGERMENT      THROUGH REMEDIATION.  WALLACE HAS REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER, RESULTING IN THIS REFERRAL SEEKING INJUNCTIVE  RELIEF AND PENALTIES THROUGH JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT.

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