# UNION OIL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52489`
- **Case Number:** 09-1994-0021
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $80K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA OWNS AND OPERATES TWO      PETROLEUM REFINERIES IN CARSON AND WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA.   THE FACILITIES REFINE CRUDE OIL BY VARIOUS PROCESSES INTO    PRODUCTS SUCH AS GASOLINE.                                     UNOCAL SUBMITTED AN INITIAL APPLICATION TO SCAQMD FOR      PTCS FOR THE RFG PROJECT EQUIPMENT IN MARCH 1993.  IN        SEPTEMBER 1993, BEFORE UNOCAL RECEIVED A PTC, UNOCAL BEGAN   POURING CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE RFG PROJECT EQUIPMENT   AT THE FACILITIES.  UNOCAL REVIEWED PTCS FOR THE RFG PROJECT EQUIPMENT ON NOVEMBER 3 AND 4, 1993.                           EPA HAS DETERMINED THAT UNOCAL VIOLATED SCAQMD RULES 201   AND 1303 BY COMMENCING ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION ON THE RFG        PROJECT AT THE FACILITIES WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING A PTC      FROM SCAQMD.                                                   REGION IX WILL ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE THIS CASE AGAINST UNOCAL BY PREREFERRAL NEGOTIATIONS AND HAS PROPOSED A BOTTOM LINE   CIVIL PENALTY OF $232,400.  SINCE NO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF       APPEARS NECESSARY, IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO NEGOTIATE A CIVIL   PENALTY AND A STIPULATED PENALTY IN THIS CASE.

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