# GETTY PETROLEUM CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57215`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1997-0329
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GETTY PETROLEUM CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

10/20/97  ONE VOLATILITY VIOLATION.                          ON JUNE 26, 1995, EPA'S INSPECTION OF HURON'S GETTY-BRANDED  RETAIL FACILITY LOCATED AT 126 CANAL STREET, BRATTLEBORO, VE RMONT FOUND 92 OCTANE GASOLINE WHOSE VOLATILITY TESTED AT 9. 36 PSI (WHICH IS ABOVE THE STANDARD OF 8.3 PSI) BEING SOLD   AND OFFERED FOR SALE. THIS CONSTITUTES ONE VIOLATION OF      40 CFR SECTION 80,27(A)(2), FOR WHICH GETTY IS LIABLE        UNDER SECTION 40 CFR 80.28(E)(4) AS THE REFINER WHOSE BRAND, TRADE OR CORPORATE SIGN IS DISPLAYED AT THE RETAIL FACILITY  WHERE THE VIOLATION WAS FOUND. IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT     GETTY HAS A PRIOR VILATION, THE PROPOSED PENALTY WAS SET AT  $4,000. CIVIL PENALTY IN SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT IS $3,400,     WHICH REPRESENTS 85% OF THE PROPOSED PENALTY AND FULLY       RECOVERS ANY ECONOMIC BENEFIT REALIZED BY RESPONDENT.

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