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Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) Any person liable for a violation under § 80.1662 is subject to civil penalties as specified in section 205 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7524) for every day of each such violation and the amount of economic benefit or savings resulting from each violation.
(b) Any person liable under § 80.1662(a)(1) or (a)(2) for a violation of the applicable sulfur averaging standard or causing another party to violate that standard during any averaging period, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day in the averaging period. Any person liable under § 80.1662(a)(11) or (b) for a failure to fulfill any requirement for credit generation, transfer, use, banking, or deficit correction, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day in the averaging period in which invalid credits are generated or used.
(c)(1) Any person liable under § 80.1662(a)(3) through (10) for a violation of an applicable sulfur per gallon cap standard under this subpart O or of causing another party to violate a cap standard, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day the non-complying gasoline remains any place in the gasoline distribution system.
(2) Any person liable under § 80.1662(a)(6) for causing gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant to be in the distribution system which does not comply with an applicable sulfur cap standard, or a sulfur averaging standard, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day that the non-complying gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant remains any place in the gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant distribution system.
(3) For purposes of this paragraph (c), the length of time the gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant in question remained in the gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant distribution system is deemed to be twenty-five days, unless a person subject to liability or EPA demonstrates by reasonably specific showings, by direct or circumstantial evidence, that the non-complying gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant remained in the gasoline, oxygenate, or ethanol denaturant distribution system for fewer than or more than twenty-five days.
(d) Any person liable under § 80.1662(b) for failure to meet, or causing a failure to meet, a provision of this subpart is liable for a separate day of violation for each and every day such provision remains unfulfilled.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Code of Federal Regulations Title 40. Protection of Environment § 40.80.1665 Penalties - last updated January 02, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/cfr/title-40-protection-of-environment/cfr-sect-40-80-1665/
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