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American Samoa Terminal Pacific Energy

Judicial · FY2020 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3602282101

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
09-2020-1522
Type
Judicial
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

The United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ), has filed a Complaint in this action concurrently with this Consent Decree, alleging that Defendant, Pacific Energy South West Pacific, Ltd. ( Pacific Energy ), violated Sections 301(a) and 309 of the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. Sections 1311(a) and 1319. The Complaint alleges that Pacific Energy discharged pollutants in industrial wastewater from the American Samoa Terminal in Pago Pago (the Terminal ) to American Samoa's coastal waters in violation of Pacific Energy's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit ('NPDES Permit ), violated other provisions of its NPDES Permit, discharged pollutants without authorization after its NPDES Permit expired, and violated the terms of a 2016 administrative compliance order issued by EPA. Pacific Energy now intends to modify its wastewater capture and treatment practices at the Terminal to eliminate co-mingling of industrial wastewater and storm water. This Consent Decree sets forth a timeline on which Pacific Energy will change its wastewater handling practices, and seek modification of its current NPDES Permit to address those changes.

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