# MERIT ENERGY COMPANY, A TEXAS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40766`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-1152
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $500
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MERIT ENERGY 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. MERIT ENERGY COMPANY, A TEXAS COMPANY                        SOUTH PENA CREEK NO. 432 FLOWLINE                            CARRIZO SPRINGS, DIMMIT COUNTY, TEXAS 78834               3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY DISCHARGING 2 BARRELS OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY IN-    TO OR UPON ROCKY CREEK AND ADJOINING SHORELINES.          4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT A CIVIL PENALTY OF $500     FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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