EPA v. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION - OCEAN VALENT - GULF OF MEXICO

Case summary

1. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO THE EPA'S POLICY GUID- ANCE, INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLOS- URE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION. 2. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION - GULF OF MEXICO 500 DALLAS STREET, LEVEL 2 HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77002 3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED A VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA AND ITS NPDES PERMIT BY A BY-PASS OF ONE OF ITS VESSEL'S SANITARY WASTE SYS- TEM. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION, AND PAST COMPLIANCE HISTORY, AND MAKE A DETERMINATION AS TO THE RESPONDENT'S QUALIFICATION TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY AND IF EPA WILL SEEK GRAVITY- BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

Defendants (1)

• AMERADA HESS CORPORATION

Facilities (1)

• AMERADA HESS CORP - GULF OF MEXICO

  500 DALLAS ST, LEVEL 2, HOUSTON, TX, 77002

  Registry ID: 110010598086

Statutes cited

• CWA 301 — NPDES Discharge without a Permit

Timeline (3 milestones)

• 2000-06-22Complaint Filed/Proposed Order
• 2000-08-09Enforcement Action Data Entered
• 2002-05-10Enforcement Action Closed