# RANGER FUEL CORP.
> **Judicial** · FY1983 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9605`
- **Case Number:** 03-1983-0001
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $40K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- RANGER FUEL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

RANGER FUEL HOLDS AN NPDES PERMIT AUTHORIZING DISHARGES    FROM 11 OUTFALLS AT ITS COAL MINE AND COAL PREPARATION PLANT IN SABINE, WEST VIRGINIA.  THE PERMIT WAS ISSUED BY REGION   III, BECAME EFFECTIVE IN 1978, AND EXPIRES IN SEPTEMBER      1983.  THE PERMIT REQUIRES RANGER FUEL TO MONITOR THE EF-    FLUENT FROM EACH DISCHARGE POINT DURING EACH MONTH.  THE     PERMIT ALSO REQUIRES THAT RANGER FUEL PERIODICALLY REPORT    THE RESULTS OF ITS MONITORING TO THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA  AND TO REGION III.  FURTHER, THE PERMIT REQUIRES RANGER FUEL TO NOTIFY THE STATE AND REGION III WITHIN FIVE DAYS OF       LEARNING THAT IT FAILED TO COMPLY WITH ANY DAILY MAXIMUM EF- FLUENT LIMITATION IMPOSED BY THE PERMIT.                       RANGER FUEL FAILED TO PROVIDE MONITORING REPORTS FOR EACH  DISCHARGE POINT FROM SEPTEMBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1980.        RANGER FUEL ALSO FAILED TO NOTIFY THE STATE AND REGION OF    NONCOMPLIANCE WITH ITS EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS FROM SEPTEMBER   1978 TO FEBRUARY 1981.  REGION III SENT LETTERS IN FEBRUARY  1981 ADVISING RANGER FUEL OF ITS VIOLATIONS OF THE MONITOR-  ING AND NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.  RANGER FUEL FAILED TO    CURE ITS VIOLATIONS AND, ON JUNE 18, 1981, RANGER FUEL       AGREED TO REPORT PROPERLY AND IDENTIFIED OPERATION AND MAIN- TENANCE PRACTICES THAT IT WOULD USE TO COMPLY WITH THE PER-    IN NOVEMBER 1981, AN INSPECTION BY THE WEST VIRGINIA       DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES (WVDNR) DISCLOSED THAT       RANGER FUEL WAS SAMPLING IMPROPERLY, W

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