# WALTER OIL & GAS CORPORATION, A TEXAS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38485`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0793
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $34K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WALTER OIL & GAS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(G)(2) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33         U.S.C. SECTION 1319(G)(2).                                2. WALTER OIL & GAS CORPORATION, A TEXAS CORPORATION            1100 LOUISIANA , SUITE 1100                                  HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77002                          FACILITIES: OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OF THE WESTERN GULF                  OF MEXICO                                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY      DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS OFFSHORE FACILITIES THAT     EXCEEDED PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS, AS SHOWN IN THE     CERTIFIED DMRS FILED WITHEPA.                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(G)(2) OF THE CWA,      EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $137,500 FOR THE VIOLA-      TIONS CITED.

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