# MCGOWAN WORKING PARTNERS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38234`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0542
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $400
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MCGOWAN WORKING PARTNERS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ),      33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL    POLLUTION ACT OF 1990.                                    2. MCGOWAN WORKING PARTNERS                                     FACILITY: JOHN M. BENNETT  B  #7, RRC LEASE ID 07004                   WEST LA SALE FIELD                                           LA SALLE, JACKSON COUNTY, TEXAS 77969           3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311 OF THE CWA BY     (1) WRITTEN PROCEDURES AND A RECORD OF INSPECTIONS ARE       NOT SIGNED BY FACILITY SUPERVISOR, (2) NO TRAINING ON THE    OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT TO PREVENT DIS-       CHARGE, (3) NO TRAINING ON THE APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES,       AND REGULATIONS, (4) SPILL PREVENTION BRIEFINGS ARE NOT      SCHEDULED AND CONDUCTED PERIODICALLY, AND (5) ACCUMULATED    OIL IN THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT SYSTEM(S) IS NOT PICKED     UP AND RETURNED TO STORAGE OR PROPERLY DISPOSED OF IN AC-    CORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS.                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT A CIVIL PENALTY OF $400     AND ISSUED AN ORDER REQUIRING THE RESPONDENT TO CORRECT      THE VIOLATIONS CITED.

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