# OLIN CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `30835`
- **Case Number:** 05-1998-0184
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $53K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ARCH CHEMICALS, INC.
- OLIN CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON JUNE 19, 1998, REGION 5 FILED A COMPLAINT IN THIS MATTER  AGAINST OLIN CORPORATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 325 OF THE      EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT ( EPCRA ) 42 U.S.C. 11045.                                               THE COMPLAINT ALLEGED THAT OLIN CORPORATION COMMITTED THE  FOLLOWING VIOLATIONS OF EPCRA: 1) OLIN CORP. FAILED TO       IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE INDIANA STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE      COMMISSION OF A RELEASE OF PROPYLENE OXIDE GREATER THAN OR   EQUAL TO ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY, WHICH OCCURRED ON JANUARY  15, 1997, IN VIOLATION OF EPCRA SECTION 304(A); 2) OLIN      CORP. FAILED TO NOTIFY THE VANDERBURG COUNTY LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE OF A RELASE OF PROPYLENE OXIDE GREATER    THAN OR EQUAL TO ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY, WHICH OCCURRED ON  JANUARY 15, 1997, IN VIOLATION OF EPCRA SECTION 304(A); 3)   OLIN CORP. FAILED TO PROVIDE WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP NOTICE TO THE INDIANA STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMISSION AS SOON AS       PRACTICABLE AFTER A RELEASE OF PROPYLENE OXIDE GREATHER THAN ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY, WHICH OCCURRED ON JANUARY 15, 1997, IN VIOLATION OF EPCRA SECTION 304(C); AND 4) OLIN CORP.      FAILED TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN FOLLOW-UP NOTICE TO THE VANDER-  BURG COUNTY LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE AS SOON AS    PRACTICABLE AFTER A RELEASE OF PROPYLENE OXIDE EQUAL TO OR   GREATER THAN ITS REPORTABLE QUANTITY, WHICH OCCURRED ON      JANUARY 15, 1997, IN VIOLATION OF EPCRA SECTION 304(C).        ON APRIL 6, 1999, REGION 5 ENTERED

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