# UOP, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32492`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0487
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $6K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UOP, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON OCTOBER 29, 1998, AT 2:40 PM, UOP, LLC., HAD RELEASE OF   ON UNLISTED HAZARDOUS WASTE CHARACTERISTIC OF IGNITABILITY.  THE RELEASE WAS THROUGH A PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE AND LASTED   FOR TWO HOURS.  THE TOTAL AMOUNT RELEASED WAS 1,142, OF      WHICH 36 POUNDS WAS BENZENE.  UNLISTED HAZARDOUS WASTE       CHARACTERISTIC OF IGNITABILITY IS A CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUB-    STANCE WITH A REPORTABLE QUANTITY OF 100 POUNDS AND BENZENE  IS A CERCLA HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE WITH A 10 POUND REPORTABLE   QUANTITY.  THE FACILILTY CALLED THE NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER ON OCTOBER 30, 1998, AT 10:45 AM.

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