# MOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Judicial** · FY1991 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35263`
- **Case Number:** 06-1991-0079
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $250K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $135K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- MOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

09/03/91:  NOT AVAIL.                                        10/07/91:  IN DECEMBER OF 1989, EPA REGION 6 PROPOSED A    TOXICS RELEASE REDUCTION PROJECT (TRRP) IN RESPONSE TO A     REQUEST FROM F. HENRY HABICHT, EPA'S DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR,   FOR A MULTI-MEDIA APPROACH TO EVALUATE SPECIFIC INDUSTRIAL   SITES WITHIN REGION 6.  AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, FIVE        TEXAS FACILITYES WERE IDENTIFIED BY THE AGENCY'S AIR TOXIC   EXPOSURE AND RISK INFORMATION SYSTEM (ATERIS) DATABASE AS    HAVING A 1 IN A 100 OR GREATER RELATIVE RISK ASSOCIATED      WITH EXPOSURE TO CHEMICALS RELEASED INTO THE AIR FROM THE    FACILITY.  MOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY'S OLEFINS/AROMATICS PLANT  IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS WAS ONE OF THE FIVE TEXAS FACILITIES      IDENTIFIED BY THE ATERIS DATABASE AS HAVING THIS RISK        POTENTIAL.                                                     THE TRRP INCLUDED A REVIEW OF CHEMICALS RELEASED TO ALL    MEDIA TO DETERMINE IF ANY OTHER SITUATIONS EXISTED THAT      WOULD SUGGEST THE NEED FOR REDUCTIONS OF CHEMICALS BESIDES   THOSE IDENTIFIED BY THE ATERIS DATABASE.  MULTI-MEDIA        RISK SCREENING EXERCISES WERE CONDUCTED ON EACH OF THE       FIVE SELECTED TEXAS FACILITIES IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY          POLLUTANTS OF CONCERN.  REGION 6 THEN CONTACTED REPRESEN-    TATIVES FROM EACH OF THE FIVE FACILITIES AND REQUESTED THE   SUBMITTAL OF TOXIC REDUCTION PLANS AIMED AT REDUCING         EMISSIONS OF SPECIFIC HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS OF CONCERN.  AS    PART OF REGION 6'S EVALUATION OF THE R

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