# GALVESTON, CITY OF, A TEXAS MUNICIPALITY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39383`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0719
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GALVESTON, CITY OF (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. CITY OF GALVESTON, A TEXAS MUNICIPALITY                      NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE 52ND STREET AND PORT INDUST-       RIAL BOULEVARD INTERSECTION                                 GALVESTON, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS 75802                  3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     EXPERIENCING OVERFLOWS THROUGHTOUT THE COLLECTION SYSTEM. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED THE RESPONDENT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO). THE      AO ORDERED THE RESPONDENT TO: A) COMPLY WITH THE SCHEDULE    TO ELIMINATE OVERFLOWS FROM THE COLLECTION SYSTEM CON-       TAINED IN THIS AO, B) ELIMINATE ALL OVERFLOWS AND BY-        PASSES OF THE COLLECTION SYSTEM BY JAN. 1, 2002, C) CON-     TINUE TO SUBMIT QUARTERLY PROGRESS REPORTS TO EPA ON THE     15TH OF EACH MONTH FOLLOWING A CALENDAR QUARTER, AND D)      OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE COLLECTION SYSTEM AS TO MINIMIZE    THE FREQUENCY, DURATION AND MAGNITUDE OF OVERFLOWS THAT      OCCUR IN THE COLLECTION SYSTEM.

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