# ARAUCO NORTH AMERICA, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604194737`
- **Case Number:** 04-2024-3795
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ARAUCO NORTH AMERICA, INC. (settlement)
## Summary

FIFRA NOW: 11/29/2024

ARAUCO NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Notice of Warning for Non-filing of Pesticide Reports
Docket No.: FIFRA-04-2024-3795

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has obtained evidence indicating that Arauco appears
to have violated requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
Pursuant to Section 7(c) of FIFRA, 7_U.S.C._?_136e(c), and regulations promulgated thereunder at 40
C.F.R. ? 167.85(d), a pesticide producer operating an establishment must submit an initial report no
later than 30 days after the first registration of each establishment the producer operates. Thereafter,
the producer must submit an annual report on or before March 1 of each year, even if the producer
has produced no pesticidal product for that reporting year. Pursuant to Section 12(a)(2)(L) of FIFRA,
7_U.S.C._?_136j(a)(2)(L), it shall be unlawful for any person who is a producer to violate any of the
provisions of Section 7 of FIFRA.
The evidence obtained by the EPA indicates that Arauco has failed to file, one or more annual Pesticide
Reports for Pesticide-Producing and Device-Producing Establishments (EPA Form 3540-16) for one or
more years and establishments. The annual reports identified as missing are as follows:


In response to the apparent violation of Section 7(c) of FIFRA and 40 C.F.R. ? 167.85(d), the EPA is
issuing this Notice of Warning (NOW) to Arauco pursuant to FIFRA Section 9(c)(3),
7_U.S.C._?_136g(c)(3). The E

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