EPA v. Howell Corporation (Oil Spill SEEP)
Final Order With Penalty
Case summary
1/4/2002 - Expedited Spill Settlement Agreement assessing a penalty of $500. Respondent discharged 6 barrels of oil from its facility into an unnamed ditch tributary to other unnamed ditches tributary to the Sipsey River tributary to the Tombigbee River and adjoining shorelines.
Defendants (1)
- Howell CorporationNamed in complaintNamed in settlement
Facilities (1)
OIL SPILL
WAYSIDE CENTRAL FACILITY, FAYETTE, AL, 35555
Registry ID: 110013701422
Statutes cited
- CWA 311F — Oil Removal Cost Recovery
Enforcement conclusions (1)
Howell Corporationentered 2002-01-04
Primary law: CWA
Federal penalty: $500
Timeline (4 milestones)
- 2002-01-04Enforcement Action Closed
- 2002-01-04Complaint Filed/Proposed Order
- 2002-01-04Final Order Issued
- 2002-11-02Enforcement Action Data Entered
Case metadata
- EPA activity ID
- 88426
- Case number
- 04-2002-5014
- Lead agency
- EPA
- EPA region
- 04
- Voluntary self-disclosure
- No
- Primary statute
- Oil Removal Cost Recovery
Sourced verbatim from EPA ECHO Enforcement Case Report for case 04-2002-5014 . Bulk data: ICIS-FEC download summary.
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