# AMERADA HESS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `51343`
- **Case Number:** 08-1999-0220
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERADA HESS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

IN A LETTER TO DAVID GOLDEN OF EPA DATED 9/1/99, RESPONDENT  ADMITS THAT ON OR ABOUT 4/7/99, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED        APPROXIMATELY 5-10 BARRELS OF CRUDE OIL FROM ITS FACILITY.   RESPONDENT ADMITS THAT THERE WAS A SHEEN FROM THE RELEASE    SITE MOVING EAST AND ACCUMULATING ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE    SATELLITE #7 ROAD AND THAT UNPROCESSED CRUDE OIL ACCUMULATED SLUDGE ALONG THE WEST SIDE OF THE SATELLITE #7 ROAD.  THE    PROPOSED PENALTY FOR THIS UNAUTHORIZE RELEASE IS $3,500.

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