# BURTON HEATWOLE AND SUNSHINE PLACE FARMS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601756965`
- **Case Number:** 04-2018-5754
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BURTON HEATWOLE (settlement)
- SUNSHINE PLACE FARMS, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

11/15/18 - ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ON CONSENT.

THIS AOC PERTAINS TO THE DEPOSITION  OF DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO JURISDICTIONAL WETLANDS AND WATERS OF THE U.S. INCLUDING APPROX 31 ACRES OF WETLANDS ABUTTING AN UNNAMED PERENNIAL TRIBUTARY OF BEEDY BRANCH.  BEEDY BRANCH IS A PERENNIAL TRIBUTARY OF BUCKHEAD CREEK, WHICH FLOWS TO THE OGEECHEE RIVER, A NAVIGABLE-IN-FACT WATER OF THE U.S. THE DEPOSITION OF THE DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL OCCURRED DURING THE CONVERSION OF THE WETLANDS AT THE DISCHARGE AREA TO AGRICULTURAL LAND.  

COMMENCING ON OR ABOUT SEPT 2014 TO THE PRESENT, RESPONDENTS, AND/OR THOSE ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENTS, DISCHARGED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL INTO JURISDICTIONAL WETLANDS ON THE SITE USING EARTH MOVING MACHINERY, DURING ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONVERSION OF WETLANDS TO AGRICULTURAL LAND. TO DATE, THE UNAUTHORIZED DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL REMAINS IN WATERS OF THE U.S.

RESPONDENTS' UNAUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES IMPACTED APPROX 31 ACRES OF WETLANDS ABUTTING AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF BEEDY BRANCH, A TRIBUTARY OF BUCKHEAD CREEK WHICH FLOWS TO THE OGEECHEE RIVER, A NAVIGABLE-IN-FACT WATER OF THE U.S.

AGREEMENT:

 - RESPONDENTS SHALL RESTORE THE DISCHARGE AREA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTORATION PLAN PREPARED BY FLC, DATED DEC 7, 2017.

 - WITHIN 30 DAYS, RESPONDENTS SHALL NOTIFY EPA OF THE ANTICIPATED CONSTRUCTION START DATE FOR THE RESTORATION. RESTORATION MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN 180 DAYS UNLESS AN EXTENSION IS GRANT

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