# WAL-MART STORES, INC. #284
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37688`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0863
- **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 OF 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. #284, AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION          930 WALNUT CREEK DRIVE                                       MANSFIELD, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS 76063                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY: 1) STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP) WAS     NOT SIGNED BY AN AUTHORIZED OFFICAL OF THE DEFENDANT, 2)     THE SITE MAP WITH THE SWPPP DID NOT REFLECT CURRENT CON-     DITIONS AT THE SITE AND SHOWED CONTROLS THAT WERE NOT IN     PLACE, AND THE PLANS HAD NOT BEEN CHANGED TO REFLECT THE     ONGOING NEEDS FOR CONTROL MEASURES FOR THE PROJECT, 3)       NO INSPECTIONS OF THE STORM WATER CONTROLS AT THE SITE       HAD BEEN DONE WEEKLY OR WITHIN 24 HOURS OF A RAINFALL AND    AND THERE WERE NO RECORDS OF INSPECTIONS INCLUDED IN THE     SWPPP, 4) SWPP HAD NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED AT THE SITE AND      NO CONTROL MEASURES WERE IN PLACE, AND 5) NO CONTRACTOR      CERTIFICATIONS SIGNED BY THE CONTRACTORS AT THE SITE OR      INCLUDED 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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