9/22/2015 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $500. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.
AGREEMENT ALLEGES:
ON MARCH 10, 2015, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROXIMATELY 840 GALLONS OF OIL, FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON A TRIBUTARY OF THE BOGUE HOMO AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES. THE EPA OBTAINED THIS INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER INCIDENT REPORT NUMBER 1110342.
RESPONDENT'S MARCH 10, 2015 DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY CAUSED A FILM OR SHEEN UPON OR DISCOLORATON OF THE SURFACE OF A TRIBUTARY OF THE BOGUE HOMO AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES, WHICH EVENTUALLY FLOWS TO THE LEAF RIVER, AND THEREFOR, WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CFR SECTION 110.3, WHICH IMPLEMENTS SECTION 311(b)(3) AND (b)(4) OF THE CWA. THEREFORE, RESPONDENT VIOLATED SECTION 311(b)(3) OF THE CWA.