Section 309(a) of the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act), 33 U.S.C. Section 1319(a), provides that, whenever the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finds that any person is in violation of any permit condition or limitation which implements, inter alia, Section 301(a), 33 U.S.C. 1311(a), in a permit issued under Section 402 of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. Section 1342, the EPA may issue an order requiring such person to comply with such condition or limitation, and shall specify a time for compliance that the EPA determines to be reasonable. The following Findings of Fact and Determinations of Law are made and this Administrative Compliance Order on Consent (AOC) is issued pursuant to the authority vested in the EPA by Section 309(a) of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. Section 1319(a), as amended. This authority has been delegated to the Regional Administrator of the EPA, Region 9, and further delegated by the Regional Administrator to the Director of the Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division of the EPA, Region 9.