# SMITH & SMITH PETROLEUM COMPANY, AN OKLAHOMA COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41081`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0179
- **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         PO BOX 545                                                   HOMINY, OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74035                         WELL NO. 1-A, OS2434, NE/4, SEC. 5, T22 N, R12 E,            SKIATOOK FIELD, OSAGE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA                    3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 1421 OF THE SDWA      BY: 1) MAINTAINING AN INJECTION WELL IN A MANNER THAT        COULD ALLOW FLUID MOVEMENT INTO UNDERGROUND SOURCES OF       DRINKING WATER; AND 2) FAILURE TO PLUG AND ABANDON WITHIN    ONE YEAR AFTER TERMINATION OF INJECTION OPERATIONS.       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 1423(C) OF THE SDWA,       EPA ISSUED THE RESPONDENT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO)       THAT ORDERED THE RESPONDENT TO: 1) PLUG THE WELL ACCORD-     ING TO REGULATIONS OR PROVIDE AN ACCEPTABLE PLAN FOR FU-     TURE USE TO EPA WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE      OF THIS AO.

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