# WAL-MART STORES, INC. #2427
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37686`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0861
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ROGERS O'BRIEN CONSTRUCTION CO. (complaint)
- WAL-MART STORES, 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., AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION               13739 NORTH CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY                               DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS 75243                        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 OFFICAL 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 PLACED OR HAD BEEN REMOVED, 3) NO IN-     SPECTIONS 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 WITH THE       SWPPP, 4) NO CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATIONS SIGNED BY THE CON-    TRACTORS AT THE SITE OR INCLUDED WITH THE SWPPP, AND 5)      SILT FENCES WERE DOWN, INLETS WERE LEFT UNPROTECTED, AND     THE CONTROLS IN PLACE DID NOT REFLECT WHAT WAS SHOWN ON      THE SITE MAP AND DESCRIBED IN THE SWPPP.                  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 THE RESPONDENT. EPA    IS SEEKING CIVIL PENALTIES OF UP TO $27,500 PER DAY OF       VIOLATION FOR PAST VIOLATIONS AND POTENTIALLY AN INJUNC-     TION REQUIRING THE IMPLEMENTATION

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