# RIO GRANDE UTILITY CORPORATION (NM0027782)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37068`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0237
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RIO GRANDE UTILITY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)(3).                                2. RIO GRANDE UTILITY CORPORATION                               P.O. BOX 1179                                                BELEN, VALENCIA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87002                  3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY VIOLATING PARTS I.A., II.B., II.C. AND PART III OF ITS    PERMIT INCLUDING INCONSISTENT PLACEMENT OF THE FLOW MET-     ER, BOD AND FECAL COLIFORM DATA NOT REPORTED CORRECTLY,      IMPROPER RECORDKEEPING FOR THE PH EQUIPMENT, AND NOT TAK-    ING SAMPLES DURING PERIODS OF PEAK FLOW.                  4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CWA,      EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO CORRECT, ELIMINATE AND PREVENT THE RECURRENCE    OF THE VIOLATIONS, APPEAR AT AND MEET WITH EPA AND SHOW      CAUSE.

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