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HAROLD NORRIS

Administrative - Formal · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · 37130

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Cost recovery
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-1997-0300
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Multimedia
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Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C. SECTION 1319(A). 2. HAROLD NORRIS P.O. BOX 11 CLIFF, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88028 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301(A) OF THE CWA BY DISCHARGING DREDGED/FILL MATERIALS INTO WATERS OF THE U.S., FORMED A 1,000 FOOT BERN BELOW THE ORDINARY HIGH WATER (OHW) MARK, PUSHED MATERIAL FROM A FORMER CHANNEL UP AGAINST THE RIGHT DESCENDING BANKC OF THE FORMER CHAN- NEL, DISTURBED, ALTERED OR DESTROYED APPROXIMATELY ONE ACRE OF RIFFLE/POOL HABITAT, AND ALTERED THE HDROLOGY OF THE RIVER BOTH UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM WITHOUT APPLYING FOR OR HAVING A COE 404 PERMIT. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) ORDERING THE RESPOND- ENT TO IMMEDIATELY CEASE ALL UNPERMITTED DREDGE AND FILL ACTIVITIES, INSTALL NATURAL OR MANMADE PROTECTION TO DE- TER EROSION ALONG THE RIGHT DESCENDING CHANNEL, PERFORM POLE PLANTING OF NATIVE TREE SPECIES ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BANKS, THE AREA OF VIOLATION AND 300 FEET UP AND DOWN STREAM, INSTALL AND MAINTAIN LIVESTOCK EXCULSION DE- VICES, REFRAIN FROM ANY FUTURE MAINTENANCE DREDGING OF THE NEWLY FORMED CHANNEL, AND SUBMIT QUARTERLY REPORTS BY WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHIC CONFIRMA

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