# LKQ CORPORATION, AND LKQ SOUTHEAST, INC.,
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2021 · — · Default Order, No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602946533`
- **Case Number:** 04-2021-0324
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Default Order, No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- LKQ CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
- LKQ SOUTHEAST, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DECEMBER 16, 2021 - ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT: On April 28, 2021, representatives of the EPA, in conjunction  with ?PD,performed a Compliance Stormwater Evaluation Inspection (CS WEI) at Respondents'  Facility at 2401 Highway 42 North, Jenkinsburg, GA 30234, to evaluate the Respondents' compliance with the requirements of Section 30 l  of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. ? l 311; the regulations promulgated thereunder at 40 C.F.R. ? 122.26; and the ISGP.  At the conclusion of the CSWEI, the EPA requested a set of documents and  information as a follow  up to the CSWEI.

On May 12, 2021, the Respondents sent a letter in response to the EPA's information Request at the conclusion of the April 28, 2021 CSWEI. On  June 14, 2021, the EPA issued an Inspection Report to the Respondents. On July 9,202.1, the EPA issued the Notice of Violation and an Opportunity to Show Cause (to the Respondents) Pursuant to Section 309(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33
u.s.c. ? 1319. In accordance with Section 402(p) of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. ?  I 342(p), and its implementing regulations, based on the CSWEJ and due to the hydrology of the Facility and historic rainfall data, the EPA has determined that from the time industrial operations at this Facility began, to present, stormwater associated with industrial activity generally discharged from the Facility through a drainage ditch and outfalls on the north and south ends of the property, to tributaries to Yellow Water Creek and Lee Creek. Yellow Water Cree

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