# WAL-MART STORES, INC. AND GERALD MARTIN LIMITED
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Combined With Another Case(s)
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38735`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0055
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Combined With Another Case(s)
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GERALD MARTIN (complaint)
- WAL-MART STORES, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309 OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.        SECTION 1319.                                             2. WAL-MART STORE, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION                 GERALD MARTIN LIMITED, A NEW MEXICO CORPORATION              FACILITY: WAL-MART STORE NO. 1397                                      10224 COORS BYPASS                                           ALBUQUERQUE, BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO                                                   87114           3. RESPONDENTS WERE IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA      BY FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THE STORM        WATER GENERAL PERMIT DURING CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES BY 1)    FAILURE TO OBTAIN PERMIT COVERAGE, 2) FAILURE TO MAINTAIN    RECORDS, 3) FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT AND MAINTAIN CONTROL        MEASURES, 4) FAILURE TO OBTAIN REQUIRED SIGNED CERTIFICA-    TION STATEMENTS FROM THE CONTRACTORS WORKING AT THE SITE,    AND 5) FAILURE TO CONDUCT REQUIRED PERIODIC INSPECTIONS.  4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309 OF THE CWA, EPA RE-    FERRED THIS DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING THE INITIA-    TION OF A CIVIL ENFORCEMENT ACTION SEEKING INJUNCTIVE RE-    LIEF AND CIVIL PENALTIES AGAINST THE RESPONDENTS.

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