# COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38132`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0438
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION, A DELAWARER CORPORATION       COASTAL TOWER, NINE GREENWAY PLAZA, SUITE 2744               HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77046                          FACILITIES: OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF WATERS OF THE WESTERN                GULF OF MEXICO                                3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS OFFSHORE FACILITIES IN       EXCESS OF PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS, AS SHOWN IN THE    CERTIFIED DMRS FILED WITH EPA.                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) TO THE RESPONDENT.       THE AO ORDERS THE RESPONDENT TO, WITHIN 30 DAYS: A) TAKE     WHATEVER CORRECTIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY TO ELIMINATE AND     PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATIONS, B) SUBMIT A        WRITTEN REPORT DETAILING THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS TAKEN TO       CORRECT THE VIOLATIONS AND WHY THEY WILL PREVENT RECUR-      RENCE, C) IF NOT POSSIBLE TO CORRECT THE VIOLATIONS IN 30    DAYS, SUBMIT A PLAN TO DO SO IN THE SHORTEST TIME POSSI-     BLE, AND D) MEET WITH EPA AND SHOW CAUSE.

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