# API OPERATING CO. - DEL GRULLO BAYOU
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37501`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0673
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- API OPERATING CO. - DEL GRULLO BAYOU (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A)(3) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A)(3).                                2. API OPERATING CO.                                            P.O. BOX 57-0536                                             HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77257                          FACILITY: DEL GRULLO BAYOU, KLEBURG COUNTY, TEXAS         3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA AND    PART I.2.C.A. OF THE PERMIT BY DISCHARGING PRODUCED WATER    IN VIOLATION OF THE DISCHARGE PROHIBITIONS 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 1) WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF       THE AO, TAKE WHATEVER CORRECTIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY TO      ELIMINATE AND PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATIONS, AND      2) WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE AO, SUBMIT A REPORT DETAILING       THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS TAKEN TO PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THESE    VIOLATIONS.

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