# NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600699194`
- **Case Number:** 04-2016-5004
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY,  INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

4-19-2016 - OIL SPILL EXPEDITED SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUES, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $4,500.  VIOLATIONS:  ON OR ABOUT MARCH 28, 2012, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED APPROX 2,500 GALLONS OF OIL NEAR MILE POST 296.2 IN RUSSELL COUNTY, AL. THE DISCHARGE REACHED A PERENNIAL WETLANDS AREA WHICH IS ADJACENT TO AND CONTIGUOUS WITH COCHGALECHEE CREEK. EPA OBTAINED THIS INFORMATION FROM THE EPA'S ON-SCENE COORDINATOR'S POLLUTION REPORT.  COCHGALECHEE CREEK FLOWS INTO THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER, WHICH IS A NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE U.S. RESPONDENT'S DISCHARGE OF OIL ON OR ABOUT MARCH 28, 2012, FROM ITS FACILITY CAUSED A FILM OR DISCOLORATION OF THE SURFACE OF THE PERENNIAL WETLANDS AND/OR UPON THE ADJOINING SHORELINES, AND THEREFORE, WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CFR 110.3.

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