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(11/05/2008) Plantation Pipe Line will pay penalty for fuel spills in Va., N.C., Ga. - Plantation Pipe Line Company, Alpharetta, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement safeguards in order to resolve a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fuel pipeline spills in three states, EPA, the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina announced. The company has agreed to pay a $725,000 penalty for discharges of jet fuel and gasoline in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina, and for inadequate spill prevention safeguards at a Virginia facility. It also has agreed to implement $1.3 million in new spill prevention safeguards.