# UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1988 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `34529`
- **Case Number:** 06-1988-0501
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $29K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION CARBIDE CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FACT SHEET:                                                  *                                                            UNION CARBIDE GENERATES A NUMBER OF WASTES, INCLUDING        'PAINT WASTES'.  BASED ON INFO OBTAINED FROM 3007 REQUEST    FOR INFO, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT PAINT WASTE FIT THE    CLASSIFICATION OF F005.  THE LAND DISPOSAL RESTRICTIONS      FOR F005 BECAME EFFECTIVE NOV. 8, 1986.                      *                                                            UNION CARBIDE SENDS WASTES TO GULF COAST DISPOSAL AUTHORITY  (GCA).  DURING AN INSPECTION AT GCA, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT  AT LEAST THREE SHIPMENTS OF RESTRICTED WASTES FROM UNION     CARBIDE WERE SENT TO GCA FOR DISPOSAL.                       *                                                            VIOLATIONS DETECTED IN THE INSPECTION AND FROM THE 3007      LETTER INCLUDE:                                              *                                                            - FAILURE TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY WASTE AS RESTRICTED; AND      - FAILURE TO NOTIFY THE DISPOSAL FACILITY THE WASTE REQUIRED   TREATEMENT PRIOR TO DISPOSAL.

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