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UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION

Administrative - Formal · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees · 37027

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-1997-0196
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Source Agrees
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
Y

Defendants (1)

Summary

1. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO THE EPA'S POLICY GUID- UANCE, INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLO- SURE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION . 2. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION TEXAS CITY PLANT TEXAS CITY, TEXAS 3. UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, THE RESPONDENT DISCLOSED A VIOLATION OF EPCRA 313 BY FAILING TO SUBMIT A COMPLETE AND ACCURATE FORM R FOR CHEMICALS LOCATED AT ITS TEXAS CITY PLANT. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA, AFTER REVIEW OF THE RESPONDENT'S DISCOVERY AND DISCLO- SURE, CORRECTION AND REMEDIATION, PREVENTION OF RECUR- RENCE, NO REPEAT VIOLATIONS, AND THE RESPONDENT'S COOPER- ATION, WILL ISSUE A FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER OR NOT TO SEEK GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATIONS.

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