# FLAGRIDGE ESTATES JOINT VENTURE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37726`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0029
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $5K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FLAGRIDGE ESTATES JOINT VENTURE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. FLAGRIDGE ESTATES JOINT VENTURE, A TEXAS JOINT VENTURE       NORTH OF HIGHWAY 2004 AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 288                CLUTE, BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS 77531                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     FAILING TO MAKE A TIMELY APPLICATION FOR PERMIT COVERAGE     FOR ITS ACTIVITIES AT THE FACILITY, AND WAS NOT COVERED      BY A NPDES PERMIT AT THE REVELANT TIMES FOR REVELANT AC-     TIVITIES.                                                 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RESPOND-    ENT TO: A) WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE       AO. MAKE A COMPLETE AND CORRECT APPLICATION FOR NPDES        PERMIT COVERAGE FOR STORM WATER DISCHARGES, SUBMITTING A     COPY OF THE PERMIT APPLICATION AND A COPY OF THE CONFIRM-    TION OF COVERAGE WITH THE PERMIT NUMBER TO EPA, B) WITHIN    30 DAYS OF THE AO, TAKE WHATEVER CORRECTIVE ACTION IS        NECESSARY TO CORRECT THE DEFICIENCIES AND ELIMINATE AND      PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATIONS AND TO COME INTO        COMPLIANCE WITH ALL OF THE APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF THE    PERMIT, C) WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE AO, SUBMIT A REPORT DE-     TAILING THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS TAKEN TO CORRECT THE VIOLA-     TIONS AND EXPLAINING WHY SUCH ACTIONS ARE ANTICIPATED TO     BE SUFFICIENT TO PREVENT RECURREN

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