CWA-09-2024-0078: Consent Agreement and (Proposed) Final Order; Continental Transport Corporation, Pago Pago, AS

Proposed administrative penalty settlement with Continental Transport Corporation, a corporation organized under the laws of American Samoa and based in Pago Pago, American Samoa (Respondent) for violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA Docket Number CWA-09-2024-0078.

Complainant: Amy Miller-Bowen, Director, Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, U.S. EPA, Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Respondent: Continental Transport Corporation, Pago Pago, American Samoa

Description of Business or Activity Conducted by the Respondent: Continental Transport Corporation is a general and special trade contractor primarily engaged in the construction of roads, streets, alleys, public sidewalks, guardrails, parkways, and airports.

Summary of Alleged Violations: Respondent discharged fill material into waters of the United States without obtaining authorization from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under CWA Section 404, 33 U.S.C. § 1344.

Proposed Penalty: $26,000.

• Consent Agreement and (Proposed) Final Order: Continental Transport Corporation, Nu’uuli Village, American Samoa (pdf) (294.22 KB, August 29, 2024)
  Complaint, Consent Agreement and (Proposed) Final Order in the matter of Continental Transport Corporation, Nu’uuli Village, American Samoa in a Class II Administrative Penalty Proceeding under Section 309(g) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g), and 40 C.F.R. §§ 22.13(b) and 22.18. Docket No. CWA-09-2024-0078.