Public Notice: Proposed penalty of $22,017 against the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT)

Summary

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 3, is hereby giving notice that it proposes to enter into a Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”), which commences and concludes an administrative action against the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”), Engineering District 2-0, 70 PennDOT Drive, Clearfield, PA, 16830.  EPA alleges that PennDOT violated certain provisions of the regulations pertaining to its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) Permit for the I-99 Excavated Rock Placement Area (ERPA) Industrial Wastewater Treatment Facility located NW off I-99, Port Matilda, PA 16830 and for the J-2 Acid Rock Drainage (ARD) Treatment Facility located at 28^th Division Highway, Port Matilda, PA 16870.

The CAFO assesses an administrative penalty of twenty-two thousand and seventeen dollars ($22,017.00), pursuant to Section 309 of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1319 for alleged violations of Section 301 of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. § 1311. The $22,017.00 cash penalty is calculated in accordance with the EPA’s Interim Clean Water Act Settlement Penalty Policy dated March 1, 1995, and the statutory penalty criteria and factors set forth at Section 309(g)(3) of the Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g)(3), and the appropriate Adjustment of Civil Monetary Penalties for Inflation, pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 19.

Applicants or Respondents

Docket Numbers

• CWA-03-2025-0048

Related Documents

• Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Public Notice (pdf) (139.39 KB)
  Official public notice to enter into a Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”), which commences and concludes an administrative action against the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”).