May 3, 2023 - Consent Decree
The consent decree for 3V Sigma USA, Inc., addresses alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act at the company's chemical manufacturing facility in Georgetown, South Carolina. Under the settlement, the company will pay a $731,250 civil penalty and spend an estimated $3 million to strengthen leak detection and repair practices to reduce emissions of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) at the Georgetown facility.
The settlement was filed along with a complaint that alleges the company violated the Clean Air Act?s requirements for miscellaneous organic chemical manufacturing resulting in excess emissions of HAPs to the atmosphere. These include leak detection and repair requirements, requirements to control emissions from storage tanks and requirements to identify and control wastewater streams.
9/14/20 - CIVIL REFERRAL TO DOJ - 3V Sigma USA, Inc. owns and operates a chemical manufacturing facility located in Georgetown, SC that produces specialty chemical ingredients in batches for a variety of different industrial processes. The facility uses four chemicals listed as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act (CAA): xylene, methanol, methylene chloride, and acrylic acid. Based on EPA inspections conducted in 2015 and 2017, as well information collected from 3V through a CAA Section 114 information request, EPA identified violations of 40 C.F.R. part 63, subpart FFFF, which is the National Emissions Standard for