ELR Citation: ELR 20438
No(s). 80-1533 (5th Cir. Apr 27, 1981)

The court modifies and affirms the imposition of an automatic civil penalty upon the owner of an oil pipeline from which oil was discharged into navigable waters due to the act of a third party. Section 311(b)(6) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, unlike other provisions of the Act relating...