# OMIMEX ENERGY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `31091`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0498
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OMIMEX (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT'S PERMIT REQUIRED RESPONDENT TO PLUG AND ABANDON ITS CLASS II INJECTION WELL NOT LATER THAN TWO YEARS AFTER   OPERATION CEASES, AND TO TEST THE WELL TO ENSURE MECHANICAL  INTEGRITY DURING THE PERIOD OF NON-OPERATION, UNLESS RESPON- DENT ROVIDED NOTICE AND DESCRIBE ACTIONS OR PROCEDURES TO    PREVENT ENDANGERMENT TO UNDERGROUND SOURCES OR DRINKING      WATER.  RESPONDENT DID NONE OF THIS DURING THE PERIOD        10/25/94-10/25/96.  RESPONDENT DID DEMONSTRATE MECHANICAL    INTEGRITY ON 4/3/97.                                         RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES AN UNDERGROUND INJECTION WELL   SUBJECT TO UIC PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STATE OF         MICHIGAN (40 C.F.R. PART 147, SUBPART X).  RESPONDENT WAS    ISSUED A UIC PERMIT FOR THE WELL.  THE UIC PERMIT REQUIRED   EITHER THE MECHANICAL INTEGRITY TESTING OF THE WELL DURING   A TWO-YEAR PERIOD OF TEMPORARY ABANDONMENT, OR ABANDONMENT,  AND PLUGGING OF THE WELL, OR NOTICE TO THE U.S. EPA AND A    DESCRIPTION OF ACTIONS OR PROCEDURES TAKEN ENSURING AGAINST  ENDANGERMENT OF UNDERGROUND SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER.       UNDER THE APPLICABLE UIC PROGRAM, RESPONDENT WAS REQUIRED    ALSO TO COMPLY WITH ALL CONDITIONS OF THE PERMIT.            RESPONDENT'S WELL WAS TEMPORARILY ABANDONED FROM AT LEAST    OCTOBER 25, 1994 THROUGH OCTOBER 25, 1996, BUT NO MECHANI-   CAL INTEGRITY TESTING WAS PERFORMED DURING THAT PERIOD, AND  NEITHER WERE THE OTHER TWO PERMIT REQUIREMENTS MET. ON APRIL 3, 1997, THE MECHANICAL INTERGRITY OF

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