# RAINBOW TROUT FARMS
> **Judicial** · FY1982 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53966`
- **Case Number:** 10-1982-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HARDY, E. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

NATURE OF CASE:                                                 THE CIVIL VIOL CONSISTS OF DISCHARGES W/O NPDES PER-    MIT. THE CO'S(THROUGH THEIR COMMON PRESIDENT, EARL M.        HARDY) WERE ISSUED A DISCHARGE PERMIT EFFECTIVE 6/75, BUT    THAT PERMIT EXPIRED BY ITS TERMS ON 12/31/79. ALTHOUGH       THE CO'S HAVE SHOWN THROUGH CORRESPONDENCE W/EPA THAT        THEY ARE FAMILIAR W/THE PERMIT'S CONDITIONS, THEY HAVE       NEVER APPLIED FOR REISSUANCE OF THE PRIOR PERMIT. IT THUS    CANNOT BE CONSIDERED TO BE STILL IN EFFECT. ALL OF THE       COS' DISCHARGES SINCE 12/31/79 HAVE THUS VIOL'D THE CWA.

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