# WAL-MART STORES, INC. - CARLSBAD, AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1998 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38167`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0475
- **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 SUPER CENTER #868, AN ARKANSAS CORPORATION          CENTER STREET & U.S. 62 - 180                                CARLSBAD, EDDY COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88220                   3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA     BY: (1) STORM WATER POLLUTION PREVENTION PLAN (SWPPP) NOT    IMPLEMENTED AND NO CONTROL MEASURES IN PLACE, (2) SWPPP      NOT SIGNED AND CERTIFIED BY AN AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL OF THE    DEFENDANT, (3) SITE MAP WITH THE SWPPP DID NOT REFLECT       CURRENT CONDITIONS AT THE SITE AND SHOWED CONTROLS THAT      WERE NOT IN PLACE, AND THE PLAN HAD NOT BEEN CHANGED TO      REFLECT THE ONGOING NEEDS FOR CONTROL MEASURES FOR THE       PROJECT, (4) NO INSPECTIONS OF THE STORM WATER CONTROLS      AT THE SITE HAD BEEN DONE WEEKLY OE WITHIN 24 HOURS OF A     RAINFALL AND THERE WERE NO RECORDS OF INSPECTIONS IN-        CLUDED IN THE SWPPP, AND (5) NO CONTRACTOR CERTIFICATIONS    SIGNED BY THE CONTRACTORS AT THE SITE 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 REQURING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF APPROPRIATE POLLUTION    CONTROL MEASURES AT ITS CURRENT A

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