# TEXMARK CHEMICALS, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37690`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0865
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $130K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TEXMARK CHEMICALS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C,        1319.                                                     2. TEXMARK CHEMICALS, INC., A TEXAS CORPORATION                 P.O. BOX 67                                                  GALENA PARK, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77547-0067              3. THE TEXMARK CHEMICALS PLANT HAS BEEN VIOLATING EFFLUENT      LIMITATIONS FOR A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME DURING THE     LAST 5 YEARS. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS DURING THE LAST YEAR,     THE PERMITEE SUBMITTED TO EPA DIFFERENT PROPOSALS TO CON-    STRUCT IMPROVEMENTS TO BRING THE FACILITIES INTO COMPLI-     ANCE WITH THE NPES PERMIT REQUIREMENTS. EACH TIME A          SCHEDULE ORDER WAS ISSUED BY EPA REQUIRING THE PERMITEE      TO CONSTRUCT THE PERMITEE-PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS AND TO       COMPLY WITH THE NPDES REQUIREMENTS, THE PERMITEE CONSIS-     TENTLY FAILED TO FULFILL ITS COMMIMENT TO COMPLY. WITH       REGARD TO SOME OF THE SCHEDULE ORDERS, THE PERMITEE          CHANGED THE STORY IN ORDER TO ABANDON THE REQUIRED CON-      STRUCTION OF TREATMENT FACILITIES AND PROPOSED TO CON-       STRUCT A NEW TREATMENT PLANT CONTINGENT UPON THE PLANT       OWNER'S ABILITY TO BUY A PORTION OF AN ADJACENT PROPERTY.    WHEN EPA INDICATED TO THE PERMITEE THAT ACHEDULE ORDER       COULD NOT BE ISSUED ON THE BASIS OF A CONTINGENT PROPOSAL    THE PERMITEE STATED THAT ALL THE CONSTRUCTION NEEDED TO      COMPLY WITH THE NPDES REQUIREMENTS WERE COMPLETED INSTEAD    OF COMPLETING THE PREVIOUSLY PROP

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