# FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, TEXAS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36239`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0370
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, TEXAS (complaint)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(H) OF THE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL ACT ( RCRA ),    AND FURTHER AMENDED BY THE HAZARDOUS AND SOLID WASTE A-      MENDMENTS OF 1984, 42 U.S.C. SEC. 6928(H).                2. FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, TEXAS                          P.O. BOX 400                                                 POINT COMFORT, TEXAS 77978                                   FACILITY ID NO. TXT490011293                              3. RESPONDENT BEGAN CONSTRUCTION OF THE FACILITY IN JUN.,       1980 AND BEGAN OPERATION IN DEC., 1982.                      PURSUANT TO RCRA SECTION 3010, THE RESPONDENT HAS FILED      THE NOTIFICATION REQUIRED OF GENERATORS OF HAZARDOUS         WASTE.                                                       AS PART OF ITS FACILITY, RESPONDENT OWNS AND OPERATES A      WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTE. THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO        TREAT SPENT PROCESS WATER PRIOR TO DISCHARGE.                RESPONDENT HAS NOT OPERATED ITS FACILITY WITHOUT UPSET OR    ACCIDENT DURING THE TENURE OF ITS OPERATION AT ITS POINT     COMFORT PRODUCTION FACILITY.                                 THERE HAS BEEN A RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE AND HAZARDOUS    WASTE CONSTITUENTS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE FACILITY    WHICH CONSTITUENTS A POTENTIAL THREAT OF HARM TO HUMAN       HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT.                               4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(H), EPA ISSUED AN     ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ON CONSENT TO THE RESPONDENT. THE       INTERIM MEASURES AND COMPREHENSIV

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