# RICH OIL CO., INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57314`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1998-0025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RICH OIL CO., INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON FEBRUARY 4, 1997, EPA CONDUCTED AND 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           QUAKERTOWN WHICH IS LOCATED IN A VOC CONTROLLED 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 RICH TRANSPORTED   THE CONVENTIONAL GASOLINE TO QUAKERTOWN.  AS THE CARRIER     WHO TRANSPORTED CONVENTIONAL GASOLINE TO A REFORMULATED      GASOLINE COVERED AREA, RESPONDENT WAS HEL LIABLE FOR VIOLA-  TION OF 40 CFR SECTION 80.78(A)(1) PURSUANT TO 40 CFR        SECTION 80.79(4).

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