# AMERADA HESS CORPORATION -  OCEAN VALENT  - GULF OF MEXICO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40600`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0985
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERADA HESS CORPORATION
## Summary

1. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO THE EPA'S POLICY GUID-      ANCE,  INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLOS-     URE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION.              2. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION - GULF OF MEXICO                    500 DALLAS STREET, LEVEL 2                                   HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77002                       3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED A      VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA AND ITS NPDES PERMIT     BY A BY-PASS OF ONE OF ITS VESSEL'S SANITARY WASTE SYS-      TEM.                                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND      PREVENTION OF VIOLATION, AND PAST COMPLIANCE HISTORY, AND    MAKE A DETERMINATION AS TO THE RESPONDENT'S QUALIFICATION    TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY AND IF EPA WILL SEEK GRAVITY-    BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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