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Settlement Payment Not a Penalty
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1997.tb08153.x
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , payment , enforcement , action (physics) , business , meaning (existential) , state (computer science) , law , law and economics , economics , political science , finance , computer science , psychology , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
A settlement payment to avoid state enforcement action was not a penalty within the meaning of the Clean Water Act (CWA), which precludes citizens' suits if the violator had paid a penalty under comparable state law.