# ORYX ENERGY CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37273`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0443
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ORYX ENERGY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ),      33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL    POLLUTION ACT OF 1990.                                    2. ORYX ENERGY CORPORATION                                      13155 NOEL ROAD                                              DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS 75240                           FACILITIES: STEPHENS COUNTY, TEXAS                                       PONTOTOC, OKLAHOMA                                           LAFOURCHE PARISH, LOUISIANA                   3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) BY THE      DISCHARGE OF 1) APPROXIMATELY 2 BARRELS OF OIL INTO AN       UNAMED CREEK FROM ITS ELIASVILLE FACILITY IN STEPHENS        COUNTY, TX., 2) APPROXIMATELY 4 BARRELS OF OIL INTO AN       UNAMED OVERFLOW POND FROM ITS PONTOTOC COUNTY, OK. FACI-     LITY, 3) APPROXIMATELY 5 BARRELS OF OIL INTO THE CHACHOU-    LA SWAMP FROM ITS LAFOURCHE PARISH, LA. FACILITY, AND 4)     APPROXIMATELY 15 BARRELS OF OIL INTO AN UNAMED TRIBUTARY     TO GONZALEZ CREEK FROM ITS BRECKENRIDGE FACILITY IN STEP-    HENS COUNTY, TX.                                          4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $7,200.

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