# SOUTHERN PACIFIC PIPELINE
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52085`
- **Case Number:** 09-1986-0014
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $78K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SOUTHERN PACIFIC PIPE LINES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

SOUTHERN PACIFIC PIPE LINES OPERATES A GASOLINE BULK TERM- INAL IN FRESNO, CA.  FRESNO COUNTY IS A NONATTAINMENT AREA   FOR OZONE WHICH RECEIVED AN EXTENSION UNTIL 1987 TO DEMON-   STRATE ATTAINMENT.  SPPL IS A DELAWARE CORPORATION REGISTER- ED TO DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA AND HAS ITS CORPORATE HQ     IN LOS ANGELES.  SPPL PIPES GASOLINE FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONS  IN CALIFORNIA TO FRESNO, PLACES IT IN STORAGE TANKS AT THE   FRESNO FACILITY AND LOADS IT INTO GASOLINE TRUCKS VIA        LOADING RACKS FOR TRANSPORT TO GAS STATIONS.  SPPL'S FRESNO  FACILITY IS ONE OF THE LARGEST GASOLINE BULK TERMINALS IN    THE AREA & IS LISTED IN CDS AS A SIGNIFICANT VIOLATOR.         SPPL VIOLATED THE CALIFORNIA STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AT  ITS FRESNO FACILITY IN THAT ITS VAPOR RECOVERY SYSTEM WHICH  CONTROLS VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS EMISSIONS WAS OPERATING  BELOW THE EFFICIENCY REQUIRED BY FRESNO COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT RULE 412.  SPECIFICALLY, A SOURCE TEST IN   AUGUST OF 1984 PERFORMED BY THE CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCE      BOARD SHOWED THAT SPPL'S VAPOR RECOVERY UNIT WAS OPERATING   AT 84.7% EFFICIENCY, WHILE DISTRICT RULE 412 REQUIRES 80%    EFFICIENCY.                                                    EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF VIOLATION ON MARCH 29, 1985.  SUB-  SEQUENTLY, ON MAY 30, AN SPPL CONTRACTOR PERFORMED ANOTHER   SOURCE TEST ON THE VAPOR RECOVERY UNIT WHICH SHOWED IT STILL TO BE IN VIOLATION, OPERATING AT 82.5% EFFICIENCY.             IN ADDITION TO THE SIP VIOLATION, SP

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