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silicon steel. if we had had that knowledge, we would have replaced that pipe. it turns out the plant was already the target of a federal criminal probe by the epa before last month s fire. it s very serious. reporter: the chief investigator with the bay area fire district said his team had a lot of flaring go on unmonitor unmonitored 300 times in a three-year period. we discovered 27 violations where we saw activity on flaherty and there was no monitoring on the flow. reporter: the agency find chevron $175,000, but now the epa has launched its own federal criminal investigation. we know that something went wrong, the refinery did something wrong. whether it rises to the level of criminal, we ll wait and see. reporter: the refinery s gm says they re cooperating with the epa but could provide no explanation. i can t explain. that s part of what the investigation is going to establish with the epa. so that investigation is still ongoing, and until that s w ....