Commonwealth v. Quaker State Oil Refining Co.

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

This is an appeal by the Department of Environmental Resources (Department) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren County, granting a motion to quash a criminal citation and dismiss prosecution against Quaker State Oil Refining Company (Quaker State) for violation of erosion and sedimentation control regulations promulgated pursuant to The Clean Streams Law, Act of June 22, 1937, P.L. 1987, as amended, 35 P.S. 691.11 We affirm.

*109On July 8, 1980, a criminal citation was filed with a district justice against Quaker State by a field inspector of tbe Department.…