# DOW CHEMICAL
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1994 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35842`
- **Case Number:** 06-1994-0131
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $26K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CHEMICAL (complaint) (settlement)
## 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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