# CWA — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For CWA, agency is EPA; statutory authority is 33 U.S.C. 1321(b)(7)(D); maximum penalty is 236,451/7,093, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** EPA _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** CWA _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 33 U.S.C. 1321(b)(7)(D) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 236,451/7,093 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/33/1321> 33 U.S.C. 1321(b)(7)(D) | CWA | 236,451/7,093 | 230,464/6,913 | 100,000/3,000

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-19/section-19.4

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
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