# MANUFACTURERS CHEMICALS, L.P.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `23689`
- **Case Number:** 04-2000-0288
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MANUFACTURERS CHEMICALS, L.P. (settlement)
## Summary

IN A LETTER TO EPA DATED JUNE 22, 1999, MANUFACTURERS        CHEMICALS DISCLOSED THAT THE FACILITY MAY HAVE               VIOLATED SECTION 8 OF TSCA.  IN ITS INITIAL DISCLOSURE       LETTER TO EPA DATED JUNE 22, 1999, THE FACILITY              INDICATED THAT THEY WERE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 8    OF TSCA IN THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO SUBMIT INVENTORY          UPDATE REPORTING FORMS FOR 1998.  THE FACILITY'S LETTER      DATED JUNE 22, 1999, DID NOT CONTAIN ADEQUATE INFO           TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE FACILITY WAS ELIGIBLE FOR           A GRAVITY BASED PENALTY REDUCTION OR ELIMINATION.  EPA       REQUESTED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE FACILITY IN        A LETTER DATED DECEMBER 1, 1999.  THE ACTUAL INSTRUCTIONS    FOR COMPLETING IUR HAD BEEN MISPLACED AT THE FACILITY        AND WERE FOUND ON JUNE 9, 1999.  THE FACILITY BECAME         AWARE THAT THE FORM HAD NOT BEEN FILED WITH THE PROPER       AUTHORITIES ON JUNE 21, 1999, WHEN ONE OF THE COMPANY'S      OFFICIAL CONTACTED EPA AND LEARN THAT THEY WERE NOT          IN COMPLIANCE.  ON JUNE 21, 1999, THE FACILITY CONTACTED     EPA, REGION 4 AND WAS INFORMED AS TO THE SITUATION.  THE     COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE WAS PROVIDED WITH INFO CONCERNING     THE AUDIT POLICY AND SUGGESTED THEY FILED A SELF-            DISCLOSURE.

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