# BEAR ISLAND PAPER COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57420`
- **Case Number:** HQ-1999-0025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BEAR ISLAND PAPER COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON FEBRUARY 6, 1998, EPA INSPECTED TWO ABOVE GROUND BULK   FUEL STORAGE TANKS AND THREE MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED.           OPERATED AND CONTROLLED BY RESPONDENT.  AS A RESULR OF THE   INSPECTION, EPA DETERMINED THAT THREE VEHICLES, A 1980 GMC   TRUCK, A 1981 TRUCK, AND A 1982 FORD TRUCK, WERE MISFUELED   WITH RED-DYED HIGH SULFUR DIESEL FUEL.  AFTER CONSIDERING    THE GRAVITY OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATION, AND RESPONDENT'S       HISTORY OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS, EPA DETERMINED   TO REMIT AND MITIGATE THE PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY FROM        $4,500 TO $3,600.

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