# SMITH & SMITH PETROLEUM COMPANY, AN OKLAHOMA COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40935`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0032
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SMITH & SMITH PETROLEUM COMPANY (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT ( SDWA ),     42 U.S.C. SECTION 300H-2(C).                              2. SMITH & SMITH PETROLEUM COMPANY, AN OKLAHOMA COMPANY         P.O. BOX 545                                                 HOMINY, OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74035                      3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 1421 OF THE SDWA      BY: 1) MAINTAIN AN INJECTION WELL IN A MANNER THAT COULD     ALLOW FLUID MOVEMENT INTO UNDERGROUND SOURCES OF DRINKING    WATER; AND 2) FAILURE TO PLUG AND ABANDON A WELL WITHIN      ONE YEAR AFTER TERMINATION OF INJECTION OPERATIONS.       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SDWA,       EPA ISSUED THE RESPONDENT A PROPOSED ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER    (AO) THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE RESPONDENT TO: A) PLUG THE       WELL ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS OR PROVIDE AN ACCEPTABLE       PLAN FOR FUTURE USE TO EPA WITHIN 30 DAYS.

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