# PHELPS DODGE CHINO, INC. D/B/A/ CHINO MINES COMPANY, A DELAW
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40049`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0427
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $26K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PHELPS DODGE CHINO, INC. D/B/A/ CHINO MI (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(G) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(G).                                          2. PHELPS DODGE CHINO, INC. D/B/A CHINO MINES COMPANY           P.O. BOX 7                                                   HURLEY, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88043                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS FACILITY THAT WERE NOT IN    ACCORDANCE WITH ITS NPDES PERMIT.                         4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(G), EPA PROPOSED A     CLASS II CIVIL PENALTY OF $44,000 FOR THE VIOLATIONS         CITED.

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