# WAL-MART STORES, INC, SAM'S WEST, INC, AND SAM'S EAST (NATIONAL CASE)
> **Judicial** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19240`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0510
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WAL-MART STORE, INC. D/B/A SAM'S CLUB (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON JULY 5, 2000, REGION III SENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTIC JUSTICE A REFERRAL ALLEGING CLEAN AIR ACT VIOLATIONS BY WAL-MART STORES, INC., AT FOUR SAM'S CLUB STORES IT RUNS IN WEST VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA. SPECIFICALLY, EPA ALLEGES THAT SAM'S CLUB SOLD REGULATED OZONE-DEPLETING REFRIGERANTS TO A PERSON WHO WAS NOT CERTIFIED TO PURCHASE THOSE REFRIGERANTS. THE REFERRAL, WHICH IS PART OF A NATIONAL INITIATIVE AGAINST WAL-MART, REQUESTS THAT DOJ SEEK A PENALTY OF $100,8000 FOR THE FOUR VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 608(A) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT (ACT)(42 U.S.C. SECTION 7671G), AND 40 C.F.R. SECTION 82.154(M).

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