# BASF CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2011 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200035552`
- **Case Number:** 04-2011-2013
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BASF CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

12/15/2010 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $5,800. RESPONDENT SHALL MAKE PAYMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS.

ORDER ALLEGES:
VIOLATION OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA
ON MAY 25, 2010, RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID ABOVE THE RQ AT THE FACILITY. EPA ALLEGES THAT RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 103(a) OF CERCLA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE NRC AS SOON AS RESPONDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN ITS REQ AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

VIOLATION OF SECTION 304(a) OF EPCRA
ON MAY 25, 2010, RESPONDENT HAD A RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID ABOVE THE RQ AT THE FACILITY. RESPONDENT VIOLATED THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 304(a) OF EPCRA, BY FAILING TO IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SERC AND LEPC AS RESPONDENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID IN AMOUNT EQUAL TO OR GREATER THAN THE RQ A RESPONDENT'S FACILITY.

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