# PUERTO RICO HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORATION AUTHORITY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `7503`
- **Case Number:** 02-2000-3413
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- PUERTO RICO HIGHWAY & TRANSPORATION (settlement)
## Summary

THE PUERTO RICO HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORATION AUTHORITY ITS      CAGUAS MEINTENANCE FACILITY, DISCHARGE POLLUTANTS THROUGH    A POINT SOURCE INTO AN UNNAMED CREEK WITHOUT A NPDES PERMIT. *****5/29/02                                                    THE RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES A FACILITY IN WHICH IT   KEEPS PARTS OF ITS MOTOR VECHICLES FLEET, MACHINERY AND      CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS.  DURING AN INSPECTION EPA FOUND      THOUSANDS OF 5 GALLON PLASTIC CONTAINERS OF TYLAC LEAKING    INTO DITCH WHICH IS A TRIBUTARY OF THE MALARIA CREEK, A      NAVIGABLE WATER OF THE UNITED STATES IN VIOLATION OF THE     CWA.

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