# ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY - ANDERSON BAYOU/CANAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37140`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0310
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $42K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. ASCENSION PARISH POLICE JURY - ANDERSON BAYOU/CANAL          2 MILES NORTHEASTERLY FROM SORRENTO                          DONALSONVILLE, ASCENSION PARISH, LOUISIANA 70346          3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY DISCHARGING DREDGED AND FILL MATERIAL INTO WATERS OF      THE U.S. WITHOUT A COE 404 PERMIT.                        4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RESPOND-    ENT TO IMMEDIATELY IMPLEMENT WETLAND RESTORATION MEASURES    TO REVERSE THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF THE DISCHARGES OF          DREDGED AND FILL MATERIAL, REMOVE ALL THE DISCHARGED         DREDGED AND/OR FILL MATERIAL AND RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF PRE-    PROJECT SURFACE CONTOURS, WATER REGIME AND VEGETATIVE        COVER ON ALL CLEARED AND SPOILED SURFACES, COMPLETE THE      RESTORATION/MITIGATION MEASURES WITHIN 270 DAYS OF RE-       CEIPT OF THE ORDER, SUBMIT A REPORT WITHIN 5 DAYS OF FIN-    AL COMPLETION OF THE RESTORATION/MITIGATION MEASURES THAT    INCLUDE A WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD CONFIRMING THAT    THE MEASURES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, COMPLY WITH THE TERMS      OF THE AO, AND OBTAIN A COE 404 PERMIT PRIOR TO ANY FUR-     THER DISCHARGES.

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