# PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49142`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0154
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $75K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

06/01/92:  THIS IS A DIRECT REFERRAL TO THE DOJ FOR A      CIVIL ACTION AGAINST PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY.  THE        DEFENDANT IN THIS MATTER GENERATED AND CONTRIBUTED REFINERY  WASTES AT 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 10/18/91 THE EPA ISSUED AN ORDER UNDER         RCRA 7003 TO PHILLIPS TO ABATE THE ENDANGERMENT THROUGH      REMEDIATION.  PHILLIPS HAS REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER, RESULTING IN THIS REFERRAL SEEKING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND     PENALTIES THROUGH JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT.

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