# HERTZ EQUIPMENT RENTAL CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600678223`
- **Case Number:** 04-2015-5019
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- HERTZ EQUIPMENT RENTAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

3/22/16 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $500.  ON FEB 3, 2015, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROX 400 GALLONS OF OIL INTO OR UPON AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF THE SOUTH RIVER AND/OR ADJOINING SHORELINES.  THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY FLOWS INTO THE SOUTH RIVER, WHICH EVENTUALLY FLOWS INTO LAKE JACKSON. LAKE JACKSON IS A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S..  RESPONDENT'S FEB 3, 2015 DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY CAUSED A FILM OR SHEET UPON, OR A DISCOLORATION OF, THE UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF THE SOUTH RIVER AND/OR UPON ADJOINING SHORELIENS, WHICH EVENTUALLY FLOWS INTO LAKE JACKSON.

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