# HANCOCK COUNTY LAND ACQUISITIONS, LLC,  HANCOCK COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2021 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602875525`
- **Case Number:** 04-2021-0502
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- HANCOCK COUNTY LAND ACQUISITIONS, LLC, (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

OCTOBER 6, 2021 - ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER ON CONSENT ISSUED: For the purposes of this proceeding and AOC, Hancock County Land Acquisitions, LLC, (Respondent), admits the jurisdictional allegations set out below and neither admits nor denies the factual allegations or dete1minations of law regarding alleged violations of the CWA as set out below. The EPA asserts that the following facts are true and substantiated:

This AOC pertains to the discharge of dredged and/or fill material into jurisdictional wetlands and waters of the United States, including approximately 1.58 acres of forested wetlands (Discharge Area), located southwest of Highway 607, in Hancock County, MS

On or after June 15, 2016, Respondent was the owner and/or operator of the Site, which contains the Discharge Area.The unauthorized activities impacted approximately 1.58 acres of forested wetlands. The wetlands on the Site are part of a contiguous wetland system and are hydrologically connected to Turtleskin Creek, a relatively permanent water. Turtleskin Creek flows into Mikes River, and then into the Pearl River, a navigable water of the United States.

The discharged dredged and/or fill material, including earthen material deposited at the Discharge Area, are  pollutants  as defined under Section 502(6) of the CWA, 33 U.S.C.? 1362(6).

The earth-moving machinery employed by the WMAH to deposit the dredged and/or fill material at the Discharge Area are  point sources  as defined in Section 50

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