# PRIDE CONVENIENCE, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57316`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1998-0027
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** $10K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PRIDE CONVENIENCE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON JUNE 15, 1997, THE SOUTHWESTERN RESEARCH INSTITUTION      SAMPLED THE PREMIUM GASOLINE AT RESPONDENT'S RETAIL OUTLET   LOCATED AT 1226 W. COLUMBUS, SPRINGFIELD, MA.  THE GASOLINE  HAD A RVP OF 9.45 PSI.  RESPONDENT OWNED THE RETAIL OUTLET,  DISTRIBUTED, AND TRANSPORTED THE GASOLINE TO THE RETAIL      OUTLET.  WHERE THE GASOLINE CONTAINED IN ANY STORAGE TANK    AT ANY FACILITY OWNED, LEASED, OPERATED, CONTROLLED OR       SUPERVISED BY ANY REFINER, CARRIER, DISTRIBUTOR, RESELLER,   OR RETAILER IS FOUND IN VIOLATION OF THE PROHIBITIONS        DESCRIBED IN SECTION 80.79(A), THE DISTRIBUTOR WHO SOLD      SUPPLIED, OR TRANSPORTED ANY GASOLINE WHICH IS IN THE        STORAGE TANK CONTAINING GASOLINE FOUND TO BE IN VIOLATION    SHALL BE LIABLE FOR VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTION80.78(A)(1)   BASED ON 40 CFR SECTION 80.79(A)(3).

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