# HANDY & HARMAN TUBE CO
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19379`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0705
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HANDY & HARMAN TUBE CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON MARCH 28, 2002, EPA ISSUED A NOTICE OF DETERMINATION      ( NOD ) PURSUANT TO THE  FINAL POLICY STATEMENT ON           INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING:  DISCOVERY, DISCLOSURE,        CORRECTION, AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATIONS , 65 FED. REG.      19618 (APRIL 11, 2000).  THE NOD IS BASED ON SELF-           DISCLOSURES PROVIDED BY HANDY & HARMAN TUBE CO., INC.        ( HANDY & HARMAN  OR  FACILITY ) FOR VIOLATIONS OF SECTION   313 OF EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT    (EPCRA), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 11023 AND ITS IMPLEMENTING        REGULATIONS AT 40 C.F.R. PART 372.  THE FACILITY IS LOCATED  AT 701 W. TOWNSHIP LINE ROAD IN NORRISTOWN, PA.              IN LETTERS DATED JULY 31, 2000, SEPTEMBER 24, 2001, OCTOBER  5, 2001 TO EPA AND IN A SUBSEQUENT RESPONSE TO AN EPA        QUESTIONNAIRE, HANDY & HARMAN DISCLOSED THAT THE FACILITY    HAD FAILED TO SUBMIT TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY FORMS ( FORMS   RS ) FOR HYDROGEN FLUORIDE AND NITRIC ACIDE FOR CALENDAR     YEAR 199 AND HAD COMMITTED DATA QUALITY REPORTING ERROR FOR  TRICHLOROETHYLENE, NITRIC ACID, AND HYDROGEN FLUORIDE FOR    YEARS 1997-1999.  THE TOTAL GRAVITY-BASED CIVIL PENALTY FOR  THESE VIOLATIONS WOULD BE $48,122.  HOWEVER, BECAUSE HANDY   & HARMAN SATISFIED ALL THE CONDITIONS OF EPA'S SELF-         DISCLOSURE POLICY AND THE AMOUNT OF ECONOMIC BENEFIC GAINED  WAS INSIGNIFICANT, EPA WAIVED THE GRAVITY-BASED CIVIL        PENALTY FOR THE DISCLOSED VIOLATIONS.

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