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DOW CHEMICAL

Administrative - Formal · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 35842

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Case

Case Number
06-1994-0131
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
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Summary

1. SECTION 3008 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT OF 1976 ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SEC. 6901 ET SEQ., AS A- MENDED BY THE HAZARDOUS AND SOLID WASTE AMENDMENTS OF 1984 ( HSWA ). 2. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY P.O. BOX 150 PLAQUEMINE, IBERVILLE PARISH, LA. 70765-0150 3. DOW HAS VIOLATED THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO SUBTITLE C OF RCRA. THE FOUR COUNTS OF VIOLATIONS ARE: 1. VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R. SEC. 266.104(B) BY EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE STACK GAS CONCENTRATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE (CO) FROM A BOILER BURNING HAZARDOUS WASTE. 2. VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R. SEC. 266.103(C)(1) BY OPERATING VINYL II PLANT BOILER F-410 ON NOV. 19, 1992, AT A TIME THE SCRUBBER UNIT WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE MINIMUM BLOW- DOWN RATE ESTABLISHED IN THE COC AND WHEN THERE WAS HAZ- ARDOUS WASTE IN THE UNIT. 3. VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R. SEC. 266.103(C)(1) BY OPERATING VINYL II PLANT BOILER F-410 ON NOV. 19, 1992, AT A TIME WHEN THE SCRUBBER UNIT WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE MINIMUM LIQUID-TO-GAS-RATIO ESTABLISHED IN THE COC AND WHEN THERE WAS HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THE UNIT. 4. VIOLATION OF 40 C.F.R. SEC. 266.103(G) BECAUSE HAZARD- OUS WASTE WAS BURNED IN THE VINYL II F-410 BOILER AT A TIME WHEN THE FACILITY LACKED A F

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