# THORNTON NATURAL GAS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `42214`
- **Case Number:** 06-2002-4809
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- THORNTON NATURAL GAS COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND 311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CLEAN     WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTIONS 1321(B)(6)(A)(I)       AND 311(B)(6)(B)(I), AS AMENDED BY THE OIL POLLUTION ACT     OF 1990.                                                  2. THORNTON NATURAL GAS COMPANY - CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION FA-      CILITY                                                       NEAR JONES CREEK AND LITTLE RIVER                            TULLOS, LA SALLE PARISH, LOUISIANA 71479                  3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 311(B)(3) OF THE      CWA BY THE DISCHARGE OF 10 BARRELS OF OIL FROM ITS FA-       CILITY INTO OR UPON JONES CREEK AND ADJOINING SHORELINES. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 311(B)(6)(A)(I) AND       311(B)(6)(B)(I) OF THE CWA, EPA PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY     OF $27,500 FOR THE VIOLATION CITED.

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