# FRANCIS WELL SERVICES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19301`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0620
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- FRANCIS WELL SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2000, EPA, REGION III FILED A CLASS I       ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT AGAINST FRANCIS WELL SERVICE, INC., WHICH OPERATES AN OIL STORAGE FACILITY LOCATED AT ROUTE 1,   BOX 271C, LEROY, WEST VIRGINIA 25252.  IN ITS COMPLAINTS,    EPA ASSERTS TAHT THE FACILITY IS IN VIOLATION OF THE OIL     POLLUTION PREVENTION REGULATIONS AT 40 C.F.R. PART 112.      SPECIFICALLY, THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT FRANCIS WELL        SERVICE, INC. VIOLATED 40 C.F.R. SECTION 112.3 BY FAILING TO HAVE A SPILL PREVENTION, CONTROL AND COUNTERMEASURE PLAN.    THIS VIOLATION SUBJECTS FRANCIS WELL SERVICE, INC. TO        PENALTIES UNDER SECTION 311(B)(6) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT,    AS AMENDED, 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B)(6). THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT PROSES TO ASSESS PENALTY OF $13,105.40.

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