# QUEST MINERALS & EXPLORATION, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41050`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0148
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $900
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- QUEST MINERALS & EXPLORATION, INC. (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. QUEST MINERALS & EXPLORATION, INC.                           WATSON B LEASE, SEC. 23, T14 N, R14 E                        OKMULGEE, OKMULGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74447                 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(J) OF THE CWA     BY: 1) PLAN NOT CERTIFIED BY A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER; 2)     INSPECTIONS REQUIRED BY 4O CFR PART 112 ARE NOT IN AC-       CORDANCE WITH WRITTEN PROCEDURES DEVELOPED FOR THE FA-       CILITY; 3) WRITTEN PROCEDURES AND A RECORD OF INSPECTIONS    ARE NOT MAINTAINED FOR THREE YEARS; 4) FIELD DRAINAGE        DITCHES, ROAD DITCHES, AND OIL TRAPS, SUMPS, OR SKIMMERS     ARE NOT REGULARLY INSPECTED FOR OIL, AND/OR OIL IS NOT       COVERED; AND 5) ABOVE GROUND VALVES AND PIPELINES ARE NOT    EXAMINED PERIODICALLY ON A SCHEDULED BASIS FOR GENERAL       CONDITION.                                                4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE     CWA, EPA ASSESSED THE RESPONDENT A CIVIL PENALTY OF $900     FOR THE VIOLATIONS CITED.

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