# MERIT ENERGY COMPANY, SHILOH (UPPER PETIT)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41124`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0222
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $4K
- **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                        SHILOH (UPPER PETIT) RRC 04791 TANK BATTERY NO. 2            SHILOH UPPER (PETIT UNIT) FIELD                              HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS 75653                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE OF 37 BARRELS OF OIL       FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON AN UNNAMED POND DRAINING      INTO MURVAUL BAYOU 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          $3,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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