# QUAKER STATE OIL REF
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9558`
- **Case Number:** 03-1982-0026
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- QUAKER STATE OIL REFINERY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CAUSE OF ACTION/NATURE OF THE CASE:                             THIS IS TO BE A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE QUAKER STA-    TE OIL REFINING CORP OF NEWELL, WV, FOR VIOL'S OF SEC 301    (A) OF THE CAA, 33 USC SEC 1311(A). QUAKER STATE OPERATES    A PETROLEUM REFINING FACILITY IN NEWELL, WV, ONE OF SEV-     ERAL SUCH FACILITIES OWNED BY THE RESPONDENT. THE FACILI-    TY PRODUCES AUTOMOTIVE MOTOR OIL & DISCHARGES PROCESS        AUTOMOTIVE MOTOR OIL. THE FACILITY DISCHARGES PROCESS        WASTES TO THE OHIO RIVER FROM TWO OUTFALLS.                    CAUSE OF ACTION/NATURE OF THE CASE:                             THE AGENCY ISSUED A NPDES PERMIT TO QUAKER STATE TO     REGULATE ITS DISCHARGES ON 10/27/79. THE PERMIT, SINCE       EXPIRED, HAS BEEN CONTINUED INEFFECT PURSUANT TO 40 CFR      SEC 122.5(A) & 5 USC 558(C) FOLLOWING QUAKER STATE'S TIM-    ELY APPLICATION FOR PERMIT RENEWAL. QUAKER STATE HAS BEEN    IN NEARLY CONTINUOUS VIOL OF THE PERMIT'S FINAL EFFUENT      LIMITATIONS FOR AT LEAST 30 MONTHS. THE RESPONDENT HAS       VIOL'D LIMITATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING PARAMETERS: TOTAL       SUSPENDED SOLIDS(TSS), AMMONIA(NH3), OIL & GREASE, SULFI-    DES & BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD5).                       THE AGENCY ISSUED 5 ADMINISTRATOR ORDERS TO                  THE RESPONDENT REQUIRING IT TO COME INTO COMPLAINCE W/       PERMIT CONDITIONS DATED 7/14/76; 9/26/77; 6/1/79; 12/20/     79; & 12/24/80. QUAKER STATE FAILED TO COME INTO CONTIN-     UOUS COMPLAINCE DESPITE THESE 5 ORDERS

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