# DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `35935`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0058
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY (complaint)
## 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. THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY                                     TEXAS OPERATIONS                                             P.O. BOX BB                                                  FREEPORT, TEXAS 77541                                     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN OF SECTION V.EE OF ITS PERMIT BY DIS-      POSING HAZARDOUS WASTE WHICH DID NOT MEET THE REQUIRED       TREATMENT STANDARDS AND OR METHODS OF TREATMENT PRIOR TO     LAND DISPOSAL, SECTIONS V.L AND V.I. OF ITS PERMIT BY        FAILING TO NOTIFY EPA AND TWC AS SPECIFIED IN 40 C.F.R.      SEC. 268.41, AND IN A TIMELY MANNER, THAT IT DISPOSED OF     HAZARDOUS WASTES WHICH EXCEEDED TREATMENT STANDARDS, AND     40 C.F.R. SEC. 268.7(A) BY FAILING TO TEST ITS WASTE TO      DETERMINE IF THE WASTE IS RESTRICTED FROM LAND DISPOSAL.  4. PROPOSED RELIEF PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA     ORDERS THE RESPONDENT TO COMPLY WITH THE BAN ON DISPOSAL     OF RESTRICTED WASTE, SUBMIT TO EPA AND TWC A PLAN ENSUR-     ING COMPLIANCE WITH 40 C.F.R. PART 268, REMOVE AND PROP-     ERLY TREAT ALL WASTES THAT EXCEED THE REGULATORY TREAT-      MENT STANDARDS FOR LAND BAN WASTE, DETERMINE WHETHER THE     WASTE IDENTIFIED IN SECTION 268.41 EXCEEDS THE CONCENTRA-    TIONS FOR ANY HAZARDOUS CONSTITUE

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