# ELF EXPLORATION, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38424`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0732
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $22K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ELF EXPLORATION, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(G)(1) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(G)(10.                                2. ELF EXPLORATION, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION                1000 LOUISIANA, SUITE 3800                                   HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77002                          FACILITIES: OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OF THE WESTERN GULF                  OF MEXICO                                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS FACILITIES THAT EXCEEDED     PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS, AS SHOWN IN THE CERTIFIED    DMRS FILED WITH EPA.                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(G)(1) OF THE CWA,      EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $27,500 FOR THE VIOLA-       TIONS CITED.

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