# JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2014 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400292222`
- **Case Number:** 04-2014-5006
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

9/18/14 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $500.  ON MAY 15, 2014, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROX 200 GALLONS OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON QOSTANAULA CREEK AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES. THE OBTAINED THIS INFO FROM THE RESPONDENT'S RESPONSE TO THE EPA'S CWA INFO REQUEST LETTER. THE QOSTANAULA CREEK FLOWS INTO THE HIAWASSEE RIVER, WHICH FLOWS INTO THE TENNESSEE RIVER. THE TENNESSEE RIVER RIVER IS A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S. RESPONDENT'S MAY 15, 2014 DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY CAUSED A FILM OR SHEEN UPON OR DISCOLORATION OF THE SURFACE OF THE QOSTANAULA CREEK AND/OR UPON THE ADJOINING SHORELINES, WHICH EVENTUALLY FLOWS TO THE TENNESSEE RIVER AND THEREFORE WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CFR 110.3.

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