# UNION CARBIDE CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS COMPANY, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35771`
- **Case Number:** 06-1994-0060
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $61K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- UNION CARBIDE CHEMICALS AND PLASTIC CO (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

UNION CARBIDE CHEMICALS AND PLASTIC COMPANY, INC. ( RESPON-  DENT ) IS INCORPORATED IN AND UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.                                                    RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES A CHEMICAL PROCESSING AND PRO-  DUCTION FACILITY (HEREINAFTER  THE PLANT ) LOCATED AT 3301   5TH AVENUE SOUTH, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS CITY, TX., AND A   NEARBY MARINE TERMINAL WHERE IT MANAGES A VARIETY OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC WASTES (IGNITABLE, CORROSIVE, TOXIC, REACTIVE, AND ACUTELY HAZARDOUS).                                      AT THE PLANT, RESPONDENT IS PRIMARILY ENGAGED IN PETROCHEM-  ICAL MANUFACTURING FROM NATURAL GAS.                         ON AUG. 11, 1980; JUL. 5, 1988; AND AUG. 8, 1991, RESPONDENT  SUBMITTED ITS NOTIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTE ACTIVITY AS   REQUIRED BY SECTION 3010(A) OF RCRA, 42 U.S.C. SEC. 6930(A). ON NOV. 17, 1980, RESPONDENT SUBMITTED A PART A HAZARDOUS    WASTE PERMIT APPLICATION.                                    ON JAN. 10, 1991, EPA AND TEXAS NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVA-  TION COMMISSION ( TNRCC ) (FORMERLY THE TEXAS WATER COMMIS-  SION ( TWC ) ISSUED A JOINT PERMIT NUMBER HW-50242-001 TO    RESPONDENT, AUTHORIZING IT TO TREAT, STORE, AND DISPOSE OF   HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATED FROM THE RESPONDENT'S PLANT AND    MARINE TERMINAL.                                             ON MAR. 13, 1991, EPA ISSUED AND MADE EFFECTIVE PROVISIONS   OF OF PERMIT NUMBER HW-50242-001, WHICH WERE REQUIREMENTS OF THE HAZARDOUS WASTE AND SOLID WASTE 

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