# MARATHON OIL COMPANY, AN OHIO CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38731`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0051
- **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 (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                    FACILITY: GARDEN BANKS 329 LEASE BLOCK                                 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 FACILITY TO         WATERS OF THE U.S. WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF AN NPDES     PERMIT.                                                   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) TO THE RESPONDENT.       THE AO ORDERED 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,     B) AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE REISSIUANCE OF THE        PERMIT, OPERATE AMD MAINTAIN THE FACILITY SO THAT THE EF-    FLUENT IT DISCHARGES DOES NOT EXCEED THE EFFLUENT LIMITA-    TIONS ESTABLISHED IN THE REISSUED PERMIT, C) COMPLY WITH     THE APPLICABLE LIMITATIONS IN THE PERMIT, D) COMPLY WITH     ALL MONITORING AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE PERMIT,     AND E) PROVIDE A WRITTEN REPORT TO EPA OF ANY NONCOMPLI-     ANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS AO.

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