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Company: Frontier Refining Inc.
Current Parent Company: HF Sinclair Corporation
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Penalty: $850,000
Year: 2009
Date: February 26, 2009
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Frontier Refining agreed to pay $650,000 and fund $200,000 for supplementary environmental projects in settlement of allegations its oil refinery exceeded permitted effluent limits for several pollutants including ammonia and hexavalent chromium.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Wyoming
Facility County: Laramie
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil & gas
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Notes: Penalty includes a $200,000 supplemental environmental project
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.