# QUANEX CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37237`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0407
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- QUANEX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)(3).                                2. QUANEX CORPORATION                                           P.O. BOX 952                                                 ROSENBURG, FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS 77471                  3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     AND PART I.A. OF ITS PERMIT BY EXCEEDING THE EFFLUENT        LIMITATIONS FOR COD, OIL & GREASE, ZN, TDS, AND PH OF THE    PERMIT.                                                   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CWA,      EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RE-     SPONDENT TO TAKE WHATEVER CORRECTIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY     TO CORRECT, ELIMINATE, AND PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF VIO-    LATIONS, AND SUBMIT A REPORT DETAILING THE CORRECTIVE AC-    TION TAKEN.

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