# TORCH OPERATING COMPANY, A TEXAS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38456`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0764
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $14K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TORCH OPERATING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(G)(1) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(G)(1).                                2. TORCH OPERATING COMPANY, A TEXAS CORPORATION                 1221 LAMAR STREET, SUITE 1600                                HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77010                          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 OFFSHORE FACILITIES THAT     EXCEEDED PERMITED 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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