# AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA
> **Judicial** · FY2000 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53434`
- **Case Number:** 09-2000-0162
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA (complaint)
## Summary

THIS IS A CIVIL JUDICIAL REFERRAL PURSUANT TO SECTION 608    OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT. THE REFERRAL ASKS THAT THE DEPARTMENT  OF JUSTICE BRING AN ACTION AGAINST AIR LIQUIDE AMERICA       CORPORATION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CAA INVOLVING INDUSTRIAL   PROCESS REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT THAT EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE  ANNUAL LEAK RATE OF REFRIGERANT (FREON) AT THREE SEPARATE    FACILITIES IN REG 9. FOR THE THREE FACILITIES IN REGION 9    THE COMBINED PENALTY THAT EPA WILL SEEK IS APPROX $800,000.  THIS REGION 9 ACTION AGAINST AIR LIQUIDE IS PART OF A LARGER NATIONAL INITIATIVE INVOLVING A TOTAL OF 22 AIR LIQUIDE      FACILITIES IN 5 DIFFERENT REGIONS OF EPA COVERING 18 STATES. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THERE WILL BE A SINGLE COMPLAINT      AND CONSENT DECREE ESTABLISHING PENALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE     RELIEF AGAINST THESE 3 REGION 9 FACILITIES IN COMBINATION    WITH FACILITIES IN OTHER REGIONS.

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