# SOCAR CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2023 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603488758`
- **Case Number:** 04-2023-0705
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- SOCAR CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC (settlement)
## Summary

1/24/2023 - STOP SALE, USE, OR REMOVAL ORDER ISSUED.

ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:
ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 18, 2022, AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE EPA CONDUCTED A ROUTINE PESTICIDE ESTABLISHMENT INSPECTION. UPON REVIEW OF THE PRODUCT LABELS AND RECORDS COLLECTED DOCUMENTING THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF
A PRODUCT, THE PRODUCT APPEARED TO BE LABELED WITH EPA REGISTRATION NUMBER 1839-86-48539, INDICATING THE PRODUCT WAS A DISTRIBUTOR PRODUCT. HOWEVER, A REVIEW OF THE EPA?S INTERNAL DATABASES REVEALED THAT THE EPA HAS NO RECORD
OF HAVING RECEIVED A SUPPLEMENTAL DISTRIBUTOR STATEMENT FROM THE REGISTRANT, AS REQUIRED BY 40 C.F.R. ? 152.132. 

ON OR AROUND DECEMBER 5, 2022, THE EPA CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF SOCAR?S WEBSITE  WHICH REVEALED THE COMPANY WAS OFFERING FOR SALE A PRODUCT INTENDED FOR USE AS A PESTICIDE REQUIRING REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 3 OF FIFRA PURSUANT TO 40 C.F.R. ? 152.15(A) WHICH IS NOT REGISTERED AS A PESTICIDE.

THE ALLEGED SALE, DISTRIBUTION, AND OFFER FOR SALE OF THE UNREGISTERED PESTICIDES BY SOCAR IS AN UNLAWFUL ACT IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 3 OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136A, AND SECTION 12(A)(1)(A) OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136J(A)(1)(A).

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