# PETROLEUM TRADERS CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57313`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1998-0024
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PETROLEUM TRADERS CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON FEBRUARY 4, 1997, EPA CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION OF          RESPONDENTS' CUSTOMER QUAKERTOWN MAINTENANCE YARD LOCATED    AT 1800 JOHN FRIES HIGHWAY, ROUTE 663, QUAKERTOWN, PA 18951. THE INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH    SECTION 211(K) OF THE ACT, 42 USC SECTION 7545(K) AND THE    REGULATIONS ISSUED THEREUNDER (40 CFR PART 80, SUBPART D).   AS A RESULT OF THE INSPECTION, EPA DETERMINED THAT QUAKER-   TOWN WHICK IS LOCATED IN A VOC CONTROL REGION 2 COVERED AREA WAS USING GASOLINE THAT HAD AN OXYGEN CONTENT OF .31 WT.     PERCENT IN VIOLATION OF THE MINIMUM 1.5 WT. PERCENT          STANDARD.  EPA ALSO DETERMINED THAT RESPONDENT SOLD,         SUPPLIED, AND CAUSED THE TRANSPORTATION OF CONVENTIONAL      GASOLINE TO QUAKERTOWN.                                      AS THE DISTRIBUTOR WHO SOLD, SUPPLIED, AND CAUSED THE        TRANSPORTATION OF CONVENTIONAL GASOLINE TO A REFORMULATED    GASOLINE COVERED AREA, RESPONDENT WAS HELD LIABLE FOR        VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTION 80.78(A)(1) PURSUANT TO 40 CFR   SECTION 80.79(A)(3).

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