# BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY, AN ARKANSAS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `41150`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0248
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $9K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(II) AND 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE         CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTIONS 1321(B)(6)(A)    (II) AND 1321(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL POLLU-      TION ACT OF 1990.                                         2. BERRY PETROLEUM COMPANY                                      INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 111 AND COUNTY ROAD 64, N.E.     STEPHENS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, ARKANSAS 71764                 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE UNAUTHORIZED DISCHARGE OF 148 BARRELS OF OIL      FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON AN UNNAMED TRIBUTARY OF       LITTLE SMACKOVER CREEK, LEADING INTO SMACKOVER CREEK AND     ADJOINING SHORELINES.                                     4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(II) AND      311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY     OF UP TO $27,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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