# WAL-MART STORES, INC. #851
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37685`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0860
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WAL-MART STORES, INC. (complaint)
- WESTERN BUILDERS AMARILLO, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(B).                                          2. WAL-MART STORES, INC. #851, AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION          1700 U.S. HIGHWAY 70 WEST                                    RUIDOSO, LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88345                 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY: 1) STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP) WAS     NOT SIGNED AND CERTIFIED BY AN AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL OF THE    DEFENDANT, 2) SITE MAP WITH THE SWPPP DID NOT REFLECT        CURRENT CONDITIONS AT THE SITE AND SHOWED CONTROLS THAT      WERE EITHER NOT IN PLACE OR HAD BEEN REMOVED, 3) SWPPP       DID NOT INCLUDE APPROPRIATE CONTROL MEASURES FOR EROSION     CONTROL IN THE AREA OF THE COLLECTION AND STOCKPILING OF     400,000 CUBIC YARDS OF EXCESS MATERIALS, 4) NO INSPECTION    OF THE STORM WATER CONTROLS AT THE SITE HAD BEEN DONE        WEEKLY OR WITHIN 24 HOURS OF A RAINFALL AND THERE WERE NO    RECORDS OF INSPECTIONS INCLUDED IN THE SWPPP, 5) NO CON-     TRACTOR CERTIFICATIONS SIGNED BY THE CONTRACTORS INCLUDED    IN THE SWPPP, AND 6) OPERATOR HAD STOCKPILED APPROXIMATE-    LY 400,000 CUBIC YARDS OF EXCESS MATERIALS WITH NO METHOD    OF EROSION CONTROL IN THE AREA OF THE STOCK PILES.        4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(B) OF THE CWA, EPA     REFERS THIS DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING INTIATION      OF A CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST THE RESPONDENT. EPA    IS SEEKING CIVIL PENALTIES OF UP 

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