# MARATHON OIL COMPANY, AN OHIO CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38661`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0974
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARATHON OIL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. MARATHON OIL COMPANY, AN OHIO CORPORATION                    P.O. BOX 3128                                                HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77252                          FACILITY: GARDEN BANKS 840 LEASE, GULF OF MEXICO          3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS OFFSHORE FACILITY INTO       WATERS OF THE U.S. WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION OF AN NPDES PER-    MIT.                                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) TO THE RESPONDENT        THAT REQUIRED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) OPERATE AND MAINTAIN     THE FACILITY SO THAT THE EFFLUENT IT DISCHARGES DOES NOT     EXCEED THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS CONTAINED IN THE PERMIT      (AS IT EXPIRED NOV. 18, 1997), THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS      OF WHICH ARE HEREBY INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE, B) COMPLY     WITH THE APPLICABLE LIMITATIONS IN THE PERMIT (AS IT EX-     PIRED NOV. 18, 1997) UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THOSE DISCHARGES     ARE AUTHORIZED BY A REISSUANCE OF THE PERMIT, C) OPERATE     AND MAINTAIN THE FACILITY SO THAT THE EFFLUENT IT DIS-       CHARGES DOE NOT EXCEED THE EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS ESTAB-       LISHED IN THE REISSUED PERMIT, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE RE-    ISSUED PERMIT AUTHOROZES SUCH DISCHARGES, D) UNTIL THE       REISSUANCE OF THE PERMIT AS TO SU

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