# NET GULF COAST, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36869`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0037
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NET GULF COAST, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. THIS CASE IS ENTERED UNDER THE EPA'S FINAL POLICY STATE-     MENT FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLOSURE, CORRECT-      ION, AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATIONS, 60 FED. REG. 66706        (DEC. 22, 1995)( AUDIT POLICY ).                          2. NET GULF COAST, INC.                                         CARROLLTON, TEXAS                                         3. UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, THE RESPONDENT DISCLOSED     THAT AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION UNCOVERED THAT PERSONNEL      AT THAT THE CARROLLTON LAB UTILIZED A PRACTICE OF SCIEN-     TIFICALLY UNACCEPTABLE MANUAL INTEGRATION OF PEAKS FOR       GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY (GC) AND FOR GAS CHROMATOGRAPH/MASS       SPECTROSCOPY (GC/MS) THAT MAY HAVE RENDERED SOME UNDER-      LYING SAMPLE ANALYSIS INACCURATE.                         4. RELIEF SOUGHT UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, THE RE-        SPONDENT CORRECTED THE POSSIBLE VIOLATION BY SUSPENDING      CERTAIN PERSONNEL INVOLVE WITH THE VIOLATION, PROVIDED       NEW TRAINING ON ACCEPTABLE MANUAL INTEGRATION, AUDITING      PROCEDURES WERE EXPANDED, IMPLEMENTED A COMPANY-WIDE COR-    PORATE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM AND HAS DEVELOPED ONSITE TRAIN-    ING AT ALL DIVISIONS. THE RESPONDENT INFORMED EPA THAT TO    PREVENT ANY MORE VIOLATIONS AT THE FACILITY, NET GULF NO     LONGERS OPERATES THE CARROLLTON LAB FACILITY.                EPA WILL CONSIDERED THE SELF-DISCLOSURE OF VIOLATION, AC-    TION TAKEN TO CORRECT THE VIOLATION, AND STEPS TAKEN TO      PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATI

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