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EQT GATHERING, LLC (WEST VIRGINIA-EQT GATHERING FACILITY)

Administrative - Formal · FY2014 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3400188686

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Case Number
03-2014-0012
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
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Summary

ON DECEMBER 3, 2013, REGION III FINALIZED A SUPER CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER AGAINST EQT GATHERING, LLC ( EQT ) TO RESOLVE RESPONDENT'S LIABILITY FOR A VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, AS AMENDED ( CWA ). ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 27, 2012, EIGHT AND THREE TENTHS (8.3) BARRELS OF PETROLEUM CONDENSATE WERE DISCHARGED FROM RESPONDENT'S ABOVE-GROUND STEEL CONDENSATE TANK AT ITS FACILITY IN WEST UNION, DODDRIDGE COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. TEN (10) GALLONS OF THE DISCHARGE ENTERED THE WATERS OF DRY RUN, WHICH IS A TRIBUTARY TO THE SOUTH FORK HUGHES RIVER, WHICH FURTHER IS A TRIBUTARY TO THE HUGHES RIVER, AND WHICH IS, IN TURN, A TRIBUTARY TO THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER, A NAVIGABLE WATERWAY OF THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO CWA SECTION 502(7), 33 U.S.C. § 1362(7), AND 40 C.F.R. § 110.1 EPA PROPOSED AND EQT SUBSEQUENTLY AGREED TO PAY A PENALTY OF $6,300.00.

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