Petroleum Company to Spend $1.6 Million To Settle RCRA Storage Tank Violations

摘要

Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp. will spend $1.6 million in compliance measures to improve leak detection and pay a $426,000 civil penalty to settle Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (United States v. Total Petroleum Puerto Rico Corp., D.P.R. , No. 15-cv-01201, consent decree filed 3/9/15). Under a proposed consent decree announced March 9, the company will implement fully automated electronic release detection monitoring systems at 137 of its facilities with underground storage tanks in active operation and will operate the systems for at least three years.