# API OPERATING COMPANY (TX0115771)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37051`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0220
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- API OPERATING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)(3).                                2. API OPERATING COMPANY                                        KLEBERG COUNTY - DEL GRULLO BAYOU                            P.O. BOX 57-0536                                             HOUSTON, TEXAS 77257                                      3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY FAILING TO COMPLY WITH PART I.2.C.A. OF ITS PERMIT AND    CONTINUING TO DISCHARGE PRODUCED WATER OR PRODUCED SAND      TO WATERS OF THE U.S.                                     4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CWA,      EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE FACILITY SO AS TO       DISCHARGE EFFLUENT WHICH DOES NOT EXCEED THE EFFLUENT        LIMITS OF THE AO, COMPLY WITH THE MONITORING AND REPORT-     ING REQUIREMENTS OF THE AO, COMPLY WITH THE GENERAL CON-     DITIONS SCHEDULE OF THE AO, PROVIDE WRITTEN REPORTS OF       ANY NON-COMPLIANCE OF THE AO, AND COMPLY WITH THE NO DIS-    CHARGE REQUIREMENTS OF ITS PERMIT.

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