# SHELL BALTIMORE TERMINAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `57690`
- **Case Number:** HQ-2000-0021
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SHELL OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON MAY 21, 1998, BIONETICS CONDUCTED A DIRECTED INSPECTION  OF RESPONDENT'S BALTIMORE TERMINAL LOCATED AT 2400 PETROLIA  AVENUE, BALTIMORE, MD.  THE INSPECTION WAS CONDUCTED IN RES PONSE TO A DIRECTED INSPECTION CONDUCTED ON MAY 6, 1998, AT  WHICH BIONETICS INSPECTED SEVEN (7) GASOLINE STORAGE TANKS A ND DISCOVERED THAT TWO (2) OF THE SEVEN (7) CONTAINED NON-CO MPLIANT GASOLINE.  FIRST VIOLATION - TANK # 7: ON MAY 6, 199 8, CONVENTIONAL GASOLINE STORED AT RESPONDENT'S TERMINAL, IN  TANK # 7 - A PREMIUM CG TANK, FAILED TO MEET THE APPLICABLE  RVP STANDARD.  SPECIFICALLY, THE TOP TWO (2) FEET OF GASOLI NE IN TANK # 7 HAD AN RVP OF 9.85 PSI WHICH EXCEEDS THE APPL ICABLE STANDARD OF 9.0 PSI.  SECOND VIOLATION - TANK # 22: O N MAY 6, 1998, GASOLINE STORED AT RESPONDENT'S TERMINAL, IN  TANK # 22 - A PREMIUM RFG UNLEADED GASOLINE TANK, FAILED TO  MEET THE APPLICABLE STANDARD.  SPECIFICALLY, THE TOP TWO (2)  FEET OF GASOLINE IN TANK # 22 HAD A VOC EPR OF 26.8 % INSTE AD OF A MINIMUM VOC EPR OF 32.6% WT.                         AS THE REFINER WHO OWNED THE FACILITY WHERE THE VIOLATIONS W HERE THE VIOLATIONS WERE FOUND SHELL IS LIABLE FOR VIOLATIO  N OF 40 C.F.R.  80.27(A)(2), PURSUANT TO 40 C.F.R. 80.28(A ), FOR THE FIRST VIOLATION (PROPOSED PENALTY OF $4,500) AND  FOR VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R.  80.78(A)(1), PURSUANT TO 40 C.F .R.  80.79(A)(2), FOR THE SECOND VIOLATION (PROPOSED PENALT Y $37,000.00)                                                A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WAS ENTERED INT

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