# EXXON COMPANY/BELLE CREEK OIL FIELD
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1992 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `49182`
- **Case Number:** 08-1992-0197
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $17K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BELLE CREEK OIL FIELD (complaint) (settlement)
- EXXON COMPANY, U.S.A. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES A SECONDARY OIL RECOVERY FIELD  IN POWDER RIVER COUNTY, MONTANA, WHICH IS AND WAS AT         RELEVANT TIMES A  POINT SOURCE  WITHIN THE MEANING OF        SECTION 502 (14) OF THE ACT, 33 USC 1362 (14).  ON 03/21/91, THE GILLETTE, WYOMING OFFICE REPORTED A 4  STEEL INJECTION   LINE LOCATED IN THE SE QUARTER OF THE NW QUARTER OF SECTION  27, RANGE 8S, TOWNSHIP 54E IN THE BELLE CREEK OIL FIELD, HAD RUPTURED AND THAT APPROXIMATELY 800 BARRELS OF PRODUCED      WATER HAD ENTERED BELLE CREEK, WHICH IS NAVIGABLE WATER      WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE SECTION.  PRODUCED WATER IS A      POLLUTANT WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 502 (6).  THE        PROPOSED CIVIL PENALTY IS $17,001.

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