# COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19516`
- **Case Number:** 03-2001-0138
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA'S ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINT CONCERNS ENFORCEMENT OF       SECTION 311 OF THE FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT, AS   AMENDED, ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321.  THE COMPLAINT     ALLEGES THAT ON AUGUST 25, 2000, COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION   CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION WITH BUSINESS IN WEST    VIRGINIA, VIOLATED SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA WHEN   STORAGE WELL NUMBER 7532 LOCATED FIVE (5) MILES NORTH/       NORTHWEST FROM RIPLEY, JACKSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA,        DISCHARGED TWENTY TO THIRTY (20-30) BARRELS OF OIL, A        PORTION OF WHICH FLOWED INTO AN UNNAMED BI-ANNUAL TRIBUTARY  TO SYCAMORE CREEK, WHICH IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 40 FEET    FROM THE WELL SITE AND TO THE ADJOINING SHORELINE.  IT IS    UNKNOWN EXACTLY HO MUCH OF THE OIL ENTERED THE BI-ANNUAL     TRIBUTARY TO SYCAMORE CREEK.  PURSUANT TO SECTION 311        (B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, THE COMPLAINT SEEKS A CLASS I       PENALTY OF $10,500 FOR THE ALLEGED VIOLATON.

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