# PERFORMANCE PETROLEUM COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36383`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0079
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $6K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PERFORMANCE PETROLEUM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ),     42 U.S.C. SECTION 300H-2(C).                              2. PERFORMANCE PETROLEUM COMPANY                                LOREN SCHMIDT                                                1901 NEW STREET                                              INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS 67301                                   FACILITY:  OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA                         3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF 40 CFR SECTIONS 147.2909      AND 147.2912(A)(2) BY MAINTAINING INJECTION WELLS WITHOUT    MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND IN VIOLATION 0F 40 CFR SECTIONS     147.2909 AND 147.2911 BY FAILING TO COMPLY WITH CONSTRUC-    TION REQUIREMENTS.                                        4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SDWA,       EPA IS PROPOSING AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER AND OPPORTUNITY     TO REQUEST A HEARING THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE RESPONDENT TO    PLUG THE WELLS ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS OR CONVERT INTO      PRODUCTION. WELL NO. 5 TO PLUGGED OR CONVERTED WITHIN 30     DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AO, AND WELL NO. 9 WITH    IN 60 DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE AO. THE AO IS NOW    IN THE RESPONDENT AND PUBLIC COMMENT PHASE. THE AO WILL      BECOME EFFECTIVE WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE PROPOSED AO DATE.

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