# AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING, INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `132746`
- **Case Number:** 03-2005-0003
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE CLEAN WATER ACT BY FAILING TO COMPLY WITH SEVERAL PROVISIONS OF ITS STORM WATER NPDES PERMIT AND ITS STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN.   THESE VIOLATIONS WERE IDENTIFIED DURING AN INSPECTION ON JULY 2003.   SPECIFICALLY, AMERICAN SUGAR: 1) DID NOT CONDUCT DAILY INSPECTIONS IN CERTIAN PARTS OF ITS FACILITY THAT CONTRIBUTED RUNOFF TO THE BALTIMORE HARBOR; 2) DID NOT PROMPTLY CLEAN UP A SPILL OF MATERIALS IN AN AREA THAT CONTRIBUTES RUNOFF TO THE HARBOR; 3) DISPOSED OF WASTE IN A LEAKY TRASH CONTAINER THAT CONTRIBUTED POLLUTANTS TO THE RUNOFF; 4) DID NOT CONSTANTLY CLEAN THE DOCK DURING UPLOADING OF RAW SUGAR FROM SHIP, AS REQUIRED BY ITS STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN; AND 5) DID NOT COVER THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SHIP AND DOCK WITH TARPS, BECAUSE THE TARPS IT USED WERE TORN OR RIPPED

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