# MOBIL OIL CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52095`
- **Case Number:** 09-1986-0024
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $950K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MOBIL OIL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION (MOBIL) MANUFACTURES POLYSTYRENE     FOAM PRODUCTS IN ITS FACILITY LOCATED AT 2024 NORRIS ROAD,   BAKERSFIELD, CA. (BAKERSFIELD FACILITY).  MOBIL IS A NEW     YORK CORPORATION REGISTERED TO DO BUSINESS IN CA.  ITS       CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS ARE LOCATED AT 150 EAST 42ND STREET,  NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10017.                                      THE AIR POLLUTANTS EMITTED BY MOBIL OF CONCERN TO EPA ARE  VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS).  VOCS ARE PRECURSORS OF   OZONE AND CONTRIBUTE DIRECTORY TO OZONE POLLUTION.  UNDER    THE CLEAN AIR ACT, PRIMARY AMBIENT AIR QUALITY STANDARDS     HAVE BEEN PROMULGATED FOR OZONE.  THE BAKERSFIELD FACILITY   IS LOCATED IN THE KERN COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT (KCAPCD) WHICH IS A NONATTAINMENT AREA AFTER 1987.             MOBIL VIOLATED SECTION 113 OF THE ACT, 42 U.S.C. 7413, BY  FAILING TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE FEDERALLY APPROVED   STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.  A JOINT REGION IX AND KCAPCD     INSPECTION BROUGHT MOBIL'S VIOLATIONS TO THE ATTENTION OF    REGION IX.  THESE VIOLATIONS CONSISTED OF EMITTING GREATER   AMOUNTS OF VOCS THAN ALLOWED BY KCAPCD RULE 414.4 OF THE SIP  .  RULE 414.4 REQUIRES MOBIL TO CONTROL 95% OF ALL CONTROL- LABLE EMISSIONS OF VOCS OR TO USE NON-VOCS IN ITS MANUFAC-   TURING PROCESS.                                                MOBIL IS CURRENTLY IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 414.4.  MOBIL   HAS ACHIEVED COMPLIANCE BY SWITCHING TO A NON-VOC IN ITS     MANUFACTURING PROCESS.  THUS EPA IS RE

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