UIC-09-2025-0055: McKittrick Limited, Bakersfield, CA; Proposed Settlement of SDWA Underground Injection Control Administrative Penalty
Consent Agreement and proposed Final Order between EPA Region 9 and McKittrick Limited to resolve an administrative proceeding under Section 1423(c)(3)(B) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. § 300h-2(c)(3)(B). DOCKET NO. UIC-09-2025-0055.
Complainant: Amy C. Miller-Bowen, Director, Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, U.S. EPA, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Respondent: McKittrick Limited, 4905 Reward Road, McKittrick , CA
Facility: The Facility is a 48-megawatt natural gas-fired power plant. Respondent injects non-hazardous treated wastewater from various processes into the Stevens Sand formation through one Class I well at depths ranging from 3,455 to 3,573 feet below ground surface.
Description of Business or Activity Conducted by the Respondent: Respondent is a company that operates a natural gas-fired peaker power plant located at 4905 Reward Road, McKittrick California.
Alleged Violations: EPA alleges that Respondent failed to comply with the terms of its permit, 40 C.F.R. § 144.51(a), and the SDWA, by failing to timely establish and report a historic cyclic range of annular pressures during normal operating conditions.
Proposed Order and Penalty: $19,363