# KERN OIL & REFINING COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `52054`
- **Case Number:** 09-1984-0011
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KERN OIL & REFINING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE KERN OIL AND REFINING CO., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION OPERATES A PETROLEUM REFINING AND MARKETING FACILITY ABOUT   10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAKERSFIELD, CA.  BAKERSFIELD IS A CI- TY LOCATED IN KERN COUNTY WHICH IS A NON-ATTAINMENT AREA FOR OZONE WHICH DID NOT OBTAIN AN EXTENSION UNTIL 1987.               KERN'S FACILITY SUPPLIES APPROXIMATELY 840,000 GALLONS  PER DAY OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS AND EMPLOYEES ABOUT 90 PERSONS IN KERN COUNTY.  KERN'S BULK GASOLINE TERMINAL HAS BEEN E-   MITTING GASOLINE VAPORS FROM LIQUID AND VAPOR LEAKS IN VIO-  LATION OF LOCAL AIR QUALITY RULES.                                7/9/83, EPA INSPECTED KERN REFIN & FOUND GASOL LEAKS    KERN'S LOADING RACK. KERN LISTED IN CDS AS SIGNF VIOLATOR IN W/IN MEANING OF SPMS. NOT OF VIOL WAS ISSUED BY EPA REGION 9 TO KERN 7/27/83. KERN WAS LISTED IN CDS AS A SIGNIFICANT     VIOLATOR WITHIN MEANING OF SPMS.  KERN RESPONDED THAT LEAKS  WERE CORRECTED                                               AND, THEREFORE, DECLINED TO MEET WITH EPA PURSUANT TO SEC-   TION 113 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT.  ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1983 A CAL- IFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD INSPECTOR INSPECTED THE KERN OIL REFINERY AND FOUND LIQUID AND VAPOR LEAKS FROM THE LOADING   RACKS.  ON FEBRUARY 14, 1984 AN EPA INVESTIGATOR AGAIN DE-   TECTED LIQUID AND VAPOR LEAKS AT THE KERN LOADING ARMS.  ON  MARCH 22, 1984 EPA REGION IX ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER  TO KERN REQUIRING IT TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 413.  ON APRIL 24, 1984 A CONFERENCE BETWEEN KE

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