# UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39509`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0845
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ),      33 U.S.C. SECTION 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL    POLLUTION ACT OF 1990.                                    2. UNIVERSAL PRODUCTION COMPANY                                 FACILITY: URANIA LUMBER CO.  A  LEASE                                  SEC. 24, T10 N, R1 E                                         URANIA, LA SALLE PARISH, LOUISIANA 71480        3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311 OF THE CWA BY:    1) NO SPILL PREVENTION CONTROL AND COUNTERMEASURE PLAN;      2) ACCUMULATED OIL IN THE SECONDARY CONTAINMENT SYSTEM(S)    IS NOT PICKED UP AND RETURNED TO STORAGE OR PROPERLY DIS-    POSED OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS; 3) FIELD        DRAINAGE DITCHES, ROAD DITCHS, AND OIL TRAPS, SUMPS, OR      SKIMMERS ARE NOT REGULARLY INSPECTED FOR OIL, AND/OR OIL     IS NOT REMOVED; 4) TANK MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION ARE NOT    COMPATIBLE WITH THE OIL STORED AND THE CONDITIONS OF         STORAGE; 5) EXCESSIVE VEGETATION WHICH AFFECTS THE INTE-     GRITY OF THE CONTAINMENT SYSTEM; 6) VISUAL TANK INSPECT-     IONS ARE NOT CONDUCTED PERIODICALLY BY APPROPRIATE PER-      SONNEL AND/OR INSPECTIONS DO NOT INCLUDE TANK FOUNDATION     AND SUPPORTS; AND 7) ABOVE GROUND VALVES AND PIPELINES       ARE NOT EXAMINED ON A SCHEDULED BASIS FOR GENERAL CONDI-     TION.                                                     4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT 

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