# SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY PRODUCTION COMPANY - DIAMOND  M  PROD. C
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40790`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-1176
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY 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. SOUTHWESTERN ENERGY PRODUCTION COMPANY                       DIAMOND  M  PRODUCTION COMPANY, MC LAUGHIN ACCT. 1           TRRC LEASE NO. 63225, BLOCK 197                              SYNDER, SCURRY COUNTY, TEXAS 79549                        3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY DISCHARGING 40 BARRELS OF OIL, A QUANTITY THAT HAS    BEEN DETERMINED TO BE HARMFUL, FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR     UPON AN UNNAMED DRAINAGE DITCH LEADING INTO CHIMNEY CREEK    AND ADJOING SHORELINES.                                   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT A CIVIL PENALTY OF          $3,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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