# EQUITY DRILLING COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36377`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0073
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $3K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- STEVE EMERT (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ),     42 U.S.C. SECTION 300H-2(C).                              2. EQUITY DRILLING COMPANY                                      STEVE EMERT                                                  P.O. BOX 40                                                  DEWEY, OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74029                       3. THE RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTIONS           147.2090 AND 147.2912(A)(2) BY MAINTAINING AN INJECTION      WELL WITHOPUT MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND IN VIOLATION OF 40    CFR SECTIONS 147.2909 AND 147.2911 BY FAILING TO COMPLY      WITH CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS.                           4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SDWA,       EPA HAS PROPOSED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER THAT WOULD ORDER    THE RESPONDENT TO COMPLETE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING WITHIN 60    DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDER:                    1. CIRCULATE CEMENT BEHIND THE OUTERMOST CASINGS FROM 280       FEET SUBSURFACR TO GROUND LEVEL,                          2. PLUG THE WELL ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS, OR                3. CONVERT THE WELL TO PRODUCTION.                        4. FACILITY:                                                    OS4798  WELL NO. 7   SW/4, SEC. 36, T 25N, R 11E

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