# Acquest Transit, LLC
> **Judicial** · FY2008 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1400005822`
- **Case Number:** 02-2008-0025
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Acquest Development, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Acquest Transit, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- William L. Huntress (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Seeking injunctive relief and civil penalties against Defendants for violations of CWA Section 301, for the discharge of pollutants, in the form of both fill material and storm water runoff, into waters of the United States in the Town of Amherst, Erie County, New York, without permits issued pursuant to CWA Sections 402 or 404, and failure to comply with an administrative order, in violation of CWA Section 309(d).

Amended complaint entered on April 5, 2011.  EPA seeks to enjoin the discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States without a permit in violation of CWA Section 301(a), require Defendants to comply with the requirements of the CWA and its implementing regulations and with the terms of any permit issued under CWA Section 402 for storm water discharges; require Defendants, at their own expense and at the direction of EPA, to restore the waters of the United States; and require Defendants to pay civil penalties.

On November 3, 2021, a consent decree settling the government?s 2009 complaint against the three Defendants for allegedly discharging fill into numerous acres of wetlands on a property in Amherst, New York without a required CWA 404 permit, and discharging stormwater associated with construction activity from the property into nearby Ransom Creek (a permanent tributary of Tonawanda Creek) without a required CWA 402 permit was entered.  Under the consent decree, the Defendants will pay $500,000 to the New York State Department of Environmental C

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