The settlement resolves a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement action against CITGO for Clean Air Act (Act) violations involving CITGOÂs failure to comply with its mobile source air toxics (MSAT) baseline standard at its Lake Charles refinery and its failure to comply with various sampling, testing, and recordkeeping requirements at its Lemont refinery, as required by the fuels regulations and the Act.
CITGO Petroleum Corporation (CITGO) is a refiner and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, and other industrial products. CITGO is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. CITGO owns and operates refineries in the United States with a combined refining capacity of approximately 750,000 barrels per day. The CITGO refineries subject to this Consent Decree are located in Lemont, Illinois, and Lake Charles, Louisiana.
The Consent Decree requires CITGO to take actions to mitigate the harm to human health and the environment caused by the excess emissions resulting from the violations at issue in this case. Specifically, CITGO will: (1) install and maintain a geodesic dome on a gasoline storage tank at its Lemont refinery, and (2) install and maintain carbon adsorption systems on two fuel storage tanks at its Lake Charles refinery.
EPA estimates that CITGOÂs Lake Charles refinery violations re