"Wetlands are critical to maintaining clean water and healthy watersheds and provide valuable public health and environmental benefits," said Art Palomares, director of the EPA's water enforcement program in Denver. "Newfield's efforts to investigate, self-report and remedy Clean Water Act violations at its production sites offer an example of corporate accountability and attention to environmental compliance," Palomares said. "(The EPA) appreciates the company's actions to restore and create wetlands at its production sites and its commitment to future compliance to protect Utah's water resources." Under the terms of the settlement agreement with the EPA, Newfield will restore about 13 acres of wetlands and streams and will perform mitigation work for the remaining damage by creating more than 10 acres of new wetlands, Palomares said. Newfield has also agreed to pay a $175,000 fine.