# JOINT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY, HAZLEHURST AND DENTON, GEORGIA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2014 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600003172`
- **Case Number:** 04-2014-5512
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- JOINT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

10/17/14 - CONSENT AGMT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $18,000, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS.

ALLEGATIONS:
COMMENCING ON OR ABOUT OCT 1, 2013, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO JURISDICTIONAL WETLANDS ON THE SITE USING EARTH MOVING MACHINERY, DURING UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WOOD PELLET PLANT. CURRENTLY, THE UNAUTHORIZED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL REMAINS IN WATERS OF THE U.S. THE RESPONDENT'S UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES IMPACTED APPROX 2.795 ACRES OF FORESTED WETLANDS ADJACENT TO AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY TO THE SATILLA RIVER, A TRADITIONAL NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S. AT NO TIME DURING THE DISCHARGE DID RESPONDENT POSSESS A PERMIT UNDER CWA 404.

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