# PALACIOS IRON & METAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36661`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0372
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $4K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PALACIOS IRON & METAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ).               2. PALACIOS IRON & METAL                                        HIGHWAY 35                                                   PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS 77465                   3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     EXCEEDING THE EFFLUENT LIMITS OF ITS PERMIT.              4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE CWA, EPA IS-    SUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RESPONDENT    TO COMPLY WITH THE EFFLUENT LIMITS OF ITS PERMIT.

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