# FMC CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2010`
- **Case Number:** 02-1986-0025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $27K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- F.M.C. CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FAILURE TO MANIFEST SPILL RESIDUE; FAILURE TO DESCRIBE AR- RANGEMENTS TO COORDINATE EMERGENCY SERVICES; FAILURE OF CON- TINGENCY PLAN TO LIST DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT; FAILURE TO  SUBMIT COPIES OF THE CONTINGENCY PLAN TO STATE & LOCAL EMER- GENCY RESPONSE TEAMS.                                          ON 11/15/84, THERE WAS SPILL OF APPROXIMATELY 40 GALLONS   OF METHYL ISOCYANATE ( MIC ) AT FACILITY.  RECORDS INDICA-   TED THAT THE SPILL RESIDUE WAS TREATED W/ CARBON AND WATER   FORMING UREA & BIURET. THIS RESIDUE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY STORED  IN TWO 55-GALLON DRUMS PRIOR TO BEING SHIPPED AS A NON-HAZ-  ARDOUS WASTE TO CECOS INTERNATIONAL, NIAGARA FALLS, NY.        DESPITE TREATMENT OF THE MIC SPILL, THE RESIDUE REMAINED A HAZARDOUS WASTE.  RESPONDENT FAILED TO MANIFEST THE SPILL    RESIDUE AS A HAZARDOUS WASTE, &, THEREFORE HAS VIOLATED      6 NYCRR 372.2(B)(5)(I).                                        AT 2/5 AND 2/6/85 INSPECTIONS, RESPONDENT'S CONTINGENCY    PLAN DID NOT DESCRIBE THE REQUIRED ARRANGEMENTS PURSUANT TO  SUBDIVISION 373-2.3(G).  IT DID NOT INCLUDE A LIST OF ALL    EMERGENCY & DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT, WHERE THIS EQUIPMENT  IS REQUIRED AND THE PLAN WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO ALL LOCAL PO-  LICE DEPTS., FIRE DEPTS., HOSPITALS AND STATE AND LOCAL      EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS THAT MAY BE CALLED UPON TO PROVIDE  EMERGENCY SERVICES.

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