# SUN COMPANY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `18841`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0099
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $21K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SUN COMPANY, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE COMPLAINT ALLEGE THAT AT 9:00AM ON DECEMBER 19, 1997, A  RELEASE OF CHLORINE, WHICH IS A CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE   AND AN EPCRA EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE, GREATER THAN ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF TEN POUNDS, OCCURRED FROM SUN'S       MARCUS HOOK FACILITY, MARCUS HOOK, PENNSYLVANIA.  THE        FACILITY IS LOCATED IN BOTH THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF DELAWARE.  THE RELEASE RESULTED FROM THE    ERRONEOUS OFFLOADING OF SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE INTO A TANK OF   ZINC SULFATE, THE SUBSEQUENT RESULT BEING THE CREATION AND   RELEASE OF CHLORINE GAS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.  THE NRC WAS    NOT INFORMED OF THESE RELEASE UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 71/2 HOURS AFTER SUN HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT A RELEASE EXCEEDING THE RQ      OCCURRED, IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 103 OF CERCLA.  NEITHER    THE STATE EMERENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION'S NOR THE LOCAL       EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE'S OF POTENTIALLY AFFECTED       STATES AND LOCALITIES WERE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY OF THE       RELEASE NOR PROVIDED WRITTEN FOLLOW UP AS SOON AS            PRACTICABLE CONCERNING THE RELEASE AS REQUIRED BY THE        PERTINENT PROVISIONS OF SECTION 304 OF EPCRA.

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