# Tallgrass Petroleum & Gary Bell
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2006 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `179446`
- **Case Number:** 06-2006-2052
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Tallgrass Petroleum Corporation & Gary Bell (settlement)
## Summary

Respondent's tank battery was a  point source   discharge  of a  pollutant , more specifically oil field brine, to Eagle Creek which is  waters of the U.S.   This discharge resulted in a violation to the Clean Water Act and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program.  The Order is requiring the Respondent to immediately cease all dicharges from the tank battery and remove the brine from the tributary.

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