# WAL-MART STORES, INC. # 259
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37684`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0859
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1.00M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $4.50M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CRAIG GENERAL CONTRACTORS (complaint) (settlement)
- WAL-MART STORE, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(B).                                          2. WAL-MART STORES, INC. #259, AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION          SH 205 & I30                                                 ROCKWALL, ROCKWALL COUNTY, TEXAS 75087                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY 1) THE STORMWATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP)       WAS NOT SIGNED AND CERTIFIED BY AN AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL       OF THE DEFENDANT, 2) THE SWPPP DID NOT REFLECT THE CUR-      RENT CONDITION OF THE SITE AND CONTROLS WERE NOT INPLACED    OR HAD BEEN REMOVED, 3) NO INSPECTIONS OF THE STORM WATER    CONTROLS AT THE SITE HAD BEEN DONE WEEKLY OR WITHIN 24       HOURS OF A RAINFALL AND NO RECORDS OF INSPECTIONS INCLU-     DED IN THE SWPPP, 4) CONTRACTORS WERE NOT IDENTIFIED OR      CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATIONS WERE NOT SIGNED, AND 5) SILT       FENCES WERE DOWN, INLETS WERE LEFT UNPRORECTED, AND THE      CONTROLS IN PLACE DID NOT REFLECT WHAT WAS SHOWN ON THE      SITE MAP.                                                 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(B) OF THE CWA, EPA     REFERS THIS DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING INITIATION     OF A CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST WAL-MART. EPA IS       SEEKING CIVIL PENALTIES OF UP TO $27,500 PER DYA OF VIO-     LATION FOR PAST VIOLATIONS AND POTENTIALLY AN INJUNCTION     REQUIRING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF APPROPRIATE POLLUTION        CONTROL MEASURES AT ITS CURRENT A

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