# DOW CHEMICAL CO.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30125`
- **Case Number:** 05-1997-0116
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $29K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CHEMICAL CO. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

COMPANY FAILED TO SUBMIT A MANUFACTURER'S REPORT-PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT                                                   INFORMATION ( PAIR REPORT ) AS REQUIRED UNDER TSCA.          ON MARCH 7, 1997 REGION V, U.S. EPA, FILED WITH THE REGIONAL HEARING                                                      CLERK, AND ISSUED TO RESPONDENT, A COMPLAINT AND NOTICE OF   OPPORTUNITY                                                  FOR HEARING.  THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT THE DOW CHEMICAL    CO. FAILED TO                                                TIMELY SUBMIT A  MANUFACTURER'S REPORT-PRELIMINARY           ASSESSMENT                                                   INFORMATION  (PAIR REPORT) FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF A CERTAIN  CHEMICAL                                                     SUBSTANCE. THE PENALTY SOUGHT IN THE COMPLAINT WAS $34,189.  DURING THE COURSE OF SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, RESPONDENT     DESCRIBED SEVERAL LEGAL AND EQUITABLE CONSIDERATIONS WHICH   CONVINCED U.S. EPA THAT REDUCTIONS IN THE PENALTY WERE       APPROPRIATE.  THESE CONSIDERATIONS COUPLED WITH RESPONDENT'S COOPERATION AND GOOD FAITH ALLOWED A REDUCTION OF THE        PENALTY BY 15%, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ERP.  THE RESULTING   SETTLEMENT REQUIRES RESPONDENT TO PAY A PENALTY AMOUNT OF    $29,060.

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