6/29/10 - EXPEDITED SPILL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $500.
AGREEMENT STATES:
ON JANUARY 16, 2010, RESPONDENT DISCHARGED AN ESTIMATED 500 GALLONS OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY INTO OR UPON THE UNDERGROUND TRUCK LINE FLOWING INTO THE DITCH FLOWING INTO THE YAZOO RIVER DIVERSION TRIBUTARY TO THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ADJOINING SHORELINES.
RESPONDENT JANUARY 16, 2010, DISCHARGE OF OIL FROM ITS FACILITY CAUSED A SHEEN UPON OR DISCOLORATION OF THE SURFACE OR THE ADJOINING SHORELINE OF THE YAZOO RIVER DIVERSION CANAL, OR CAUSED A SLUDGE OR EMULSION TO BE DEPOSITED BENEATH THE SURFACE, AND THEREFORE, WAS IN A QUANTITY THAT HAS BEEN DETERMINED MAY BE HARMFUL UNDER 40 CFR SECTION 110.3.