Dec 20, 2012 · Context

TCEQ agreed order settles fuel-tank testing allegations at the landfill and a City service center

TCEQ approved Agreed Order Docket No. 2012-1264-PST-E with the City of Amarillo covering underground fuel storage tanks at the City's vehicle repair and refinish service center (seven tanks) and the landfill (one tank). The order alleged the City did not conduct annual piping tightness and line leak detector tests, assessed a $6,875 administrative penalty ($5,500 paid, $1,375 deferred), and required release detection at the service center. The City generally denied the allegations.^[1]^[2]

What the sources say

✓ Verified
Agreed Order 2012-1264-PST-E alleged that the City failed to provide proper release detection for pressurized piping at underground storage tanks at its Vehicle Repair & Refinish Service Center (800 SE 23rd Avenue, seven tanks) and the landfill (one tank), as documented in an August 18, 2011 investigation and a May 3, 2012 record review, by not conducting annual piping tightness and line leak detector tests.^[1]
✓ Verified
The order assessed a $6,875 administrative penalty, of which the City had paid $5,500 and $1,375 was deferred pending compliance; it recognized that piping tightness and line leak detector tests were conducted at the landfill on March 3, 2012, required release detection for the service center piping within 30 days, and states the City generally denied the allegations.^[1]
Penalty
$6,875
Paid
$5,500
Deferred
$1,375

Sources

1.Agreed Order, Docket No. 2012-1264-PST-E, In the Matter of an Enforcement Action Concerning City of Amarillo, RN102518438 and RN100237551 — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Dec 20, 2012 · retrieved Oct 10, 2026primaryIndependentScanned PDF (read visually), 7 pages.
2.TCEQ Commissioners' Integrated Database: search results for Regulated Entity RN100237551 (all actions) — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Oct 10, 2026 · retrieved Oct 10, 2026primaryIndependentSearch form (POST) with Regulated Entity Number RN100237551 and 'all actions'; results are not addressable by URL. Four items returned: AMENDMENT, permit 73A (ED granted and permit signed 08/22/2007, mailed 09/07/2007); MINOR MOD, permit 73A (signed 03/29/2010); NOTICE MOD, permit 73A (signed 03/30/2023); ENFORCE, Docket 2012-1264-PST-E (ED order signed 12/20/2012). No other enforcement item was listed for this regulated entity.