# ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37137`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0307
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)(3).                                2. ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY                                 P.O. BOX 351                                                 DONALDSONVILLE, ASCENSION PARISH, LOUISIANA 70346            FACILITY: 1) PANAMA CANAL; 2) SOILEAU BAYOU; 3) ANDERSON               CANAL; 4) BABIN CANAL; 5) BAYOU NARCISSE; 6)                 BLACK BAYOU; 7) GRAND GOUDINE BAYOU; 8) WHITE                CYPRESS CANAL; 9) TOLEDO CANAL; 10) MILLET BA-               YOU; 11) HENDERSON BAYOU; AND 12) MUDDY CREEK.  3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY THE DISCHARGE OF DREDGED AND FILL MATERIAL INTO WATERS    OF THE U.S, INCLUDING WETLANDS, WITHOUT A COE 404 PERMIT     AUTHORIZING THE DISCHARGE.                                4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CWA,      EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO IMMEDIATELY CEASE ALL UNPERMITTED DISCHARGES     OF DREDGED/FILL MATERIAL INTO WATERS OF THE U.S. AND DE-     SIST FROM ANY FURTHER UNPERMITTED DISCHARGES, AND WITHIN     30 DAYS OF RECEIPT OF THE ORDER, RESPONDENT SHALL EITHER     BEGIN THE RESTORATION OF ALL IMPACTED AREAS TO PRE-PRO-      JECT CONDITIONS OR SUBMIT AN AFTER-THE-FACT SECTION 404      PERMIT APPLICATION TO THE NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT, CORPS OF     ENGINEERS (COE).

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