# CEDAR CHEMICAL CORPORATION (aka VICKSBURG CHEMICAL COMPANY)
> **Judicial** · FY1988 · — · Superseded by Another Enforcement Action
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `20322`
- **Case Number:** 04-1988-0017
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Superseded by Another Enforcement Action
- **Penalty assessed:** $0
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CEDAR CHEMICAL CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

CEDAR CHEMICAL CORPORATION (CCC) OWNS AND OPERATES A       CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING PLANT IN VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.      SINCE 1980, THE COMPANY HAS GENERATED HAZARDOUS WASTE (P020) A COMMERCIAL CHEMICAL PRODUCT KNOWN AS DINOSEB, WHICH FLOWS  FROM A PRODUCTION AREA, THROUGH A SYSTEM OF SUMPS INTO A     SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT.  THE COMPANY PRODUCED TOXAPHENE WHICH   GENERATED A WASTEWATER (K098).  THE WASTEWATER FLOWED,       UNTREATED, INTO THE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT, AND PRODUCTED A     SLUDGE (K041).  CCC ALSO OPERATEDS A STORAGE AREA            PURPORTEDLY FOR STORAGE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FOR LESS THAN     NINETY DAYS.                                                   ON JUNE 23, 1980, CCC (AS VERTAC) NOTIFIED EPA THAT IS     GENERATED, TREATED, STORED, DISPOSED OF AND TRANSPORTED      HAZARDOUS WASTES K041, P020, P047, U044, U224 AND U239.      THE FACILITY SUBMITTED A PART A HAZARDOUS WASTE PERMIT       APPLICATION ON NOVEMBER 18, 1980, INDICATING THAT IT WAS     USING A SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT AS A TREATMENT UNIT (T04).       CCC SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED THE PART A ON AUGUST 10, 1983 TO    SHOW THAT THE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT WAS BEING USED AS A        STORAGE UNIT (S04).

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