# ROHM AND HAAS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18717`
- **Case Number:** 03-1999-0378
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $13K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ROHM AND HAAS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1999, EPA ISSUED TWO ADMINISTRATIVE         COMPLAINT AGAINST ROHM AND HAAS CORPORATION ALLEGING         VIOLATIONS OF EPCRA SECTION 304, 42 U.S.C. 11004 AND CERCLA  SECTION 103, 42 U.S.C. 9603 AND ASSESSING PENALTIES UNDER    EPCRA SECTION 325, 42 U.S.C. 11025 AND CERCLA SECTION 109,   42 U.S.C. 9609.  THE CERCLA COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT ROHM AND  HAAS, ON TWO OCCASIONS, FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT THE     RELEASE OF A HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, EQUAL TO OR ABOVE THE      APPLICABLE REPORTABLE QUANTITY TO THE NATIONAL RESPONSE      CENTER AS REQUIRED BY CERCLA SECTION 103.  THE EPCRA         COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT ROHM AND HAAS:  (1) ON TWO OCCASIONS, FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT THE RELEASE OF A HAZARDOUS      SUBSTANCE, ABOVE THE APPLICABLE REPORTABLE QUANTITY, TO THE  APPROPRIATE STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION (SERC) AS    REQUIRED BY EPCRA SECTION 304(A) AND (B); (2) ON TWO         OCCASIONS, FAILED TO IMMEDIATELY REPORT THE RELEASE OF A     HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, ABOVE THE APPLICABLE REPORTABLE         QUANTITY, TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING        COMMISSIONS (LEPC) AS REQUIRED BY EPCRA SECTION 304(A) AND   (B); (3) ON THREE OCCASIONS, FAILED TO PROVIDE TIMELY        WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP NOTIFICATION CONCERNING A REPORTABLE       RELEASE TO THE APPROPRIATE SERC AS REQUIRED BY EPCRA SECTION 304(C); (4) ON THREE OCCASIONS, FAILED TO PROVIDE TIMELY     WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP NOTIFICATION CONCERNING A REPORTABLE       RELEASE TO THE APPROPRIATE LEPC AS R

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