# ALLIED SIGNAL SPECIALTY CHEMICALS (ASTOR CORPORATION)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order No Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19922`
- **Case Number:** 03-2002-0140
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order No Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $0
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALLIED SIGNAL SPECIALTY CHEMICAL (ASTOR) (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 ALLIED SIGNAL, INC. ( ALLIED ) FOR   VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 15(3) OF THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL  ACT ( TSCA ), 15 U.S.C. SECTION 2614(3) AND ITS              IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS AT 40 C.F.R. 710.28 AND 710.32.     THE ALLIED SIGNAL SPECIALTY CHEMICAL - ASTOR CORPORATION -   WAX MANUFACTURING ( ASTOR  OR  FACILITIES ) FACILITIES ARE   LOCATED AT 100 HILL STREET, EMLENTON, MCKEAN COUNTY AND THE  INTERSECTION OF ROUTES 46 & 446, SMETHPORT, VENANGO COUNTY,  PENNSYLVANIA.                                                IN A LETTER TO EPA DATED DECEMBER 23, 1998, AND IN A         SUBSEQUENT RESPONSE TO AN EPA QUESTIONNAIRE, ALLIED          DISCLOSED THAT THE FACILITIES HAD FAILED TO SUBMIT INVENTORY UPDATE REPORTS ( IUR ) FOR SEVENTEEN (17) CHEMICALS WHICH    ALLIED HAS CLAIMED AS TSCA CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS INFORMATION ( CBI ) FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD WHICH ENDED DECEMBER 1994.  ASTOR BECAME A WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF ALLIED IN 1997.    THE TOTAL GRAVITY-BASED CIVIL PENALTY FOR THESE VIOLATIONS   WOULD BE $289,000.  HOWEVER, ALLIED SATISFIED ALL THE        CONDITIONS OF EPA'S SELF-DISCLOSURE POLICY AND THE AMOUNT OF ECONOMIC BENEFIT GAINED IS INSIGNIFI

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