Title 40
SECTION 80.615
80.615 What penalties apply under this subpart
§ 80.615 What penalties apply under this subpart?(a) Any person liable for a violation under § 80.612 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)(1) Any person liable under § 80.612(a)(1) for a violation of an applicable standard or requirement under this Subpart I or for causing another party to violate such standard or requirement, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day the non-complying diesel fuel remains any place in the distribution system.
(2) Any person liable under § 80.612(a)(2) for causing motor vehicle diesel fuel, NRLM diesel fuel, ECA marine fuel, heating oil, or other distillate fuel to be in the distribution system which does not comply with an applicable standard or requirement of this subpart I, except as allowed under 40 CFR part 1043, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day that the noncomplying fuel remains any place in the diesel fuel distribution system.
(3) Any person liable under § 80.612(a)(1) for blending into diesel fuel an additive violating the applicable sulfur standard pursuant to the requirements of § 80.521(a) or (b), as applicable, or of causing another party to so blend such an additive, is subject to a separate day of violation for each and every day the motor vehicle diesel fuel or NRLM diesel fuel into which the noncomplying additive was blended, remains any place in the fuel distribution system.
(4) For purposes of this paragraph (b):
(i) The length of time the motor vehicle diesel fuel, NRLM diesel fuel, ECA marine fuel, heating oil, or other distillate fuel in question remained in the diesel fuel distribution system is deemed to be 25 days, except as further specified in paragraph (b)(4)(ii) of this section.
(ii) The length of time is deemed not to be 25 days if a person subject to liability demonstrates by reasonably specific showings, by direct or circumstantial evidence, that the non-complying motor vehicle, NR diesel fuel, NRLM diesel fuel, ECA marine fuel, heating oil, or distillate fuel remained in the distribution system for fewer than or more than 25 days.
(c) Any person liable under § 80.612(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.
[69 FR 39208, June 29, 2004, as amended at 75 FR 22977, Apr. 30, 2010]