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UNION CARBIDE - TAFT PLANT

Administrative - Formal · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees · 37322

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-1997-0493
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- ANCE, INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLOS- URE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION. 2. UNION CARBIDE - TAFT PLANT, A CONNECTICUTT COMPANY HIGHWAY 3142 @ CORNER OF HIGHWAY 18 HAHNVILLE, SAINT CHARLES PARISH, LOUISIANA 70057 3. UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, RESPONDENT DISCLOSED VIO- LATIONS OF EPCRA 313. THE RESPONDENT DISCLOSED THE PRES- ENSE OF DICYCLOPENTADIENE, WHICH HAD NOT BEEN REPORTED TO EPA INITS TRI REPORTS. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA WILL ISSUE A FINAL DETERMINATION, AFTER REVIEW OF THE VOLUNTARY SELF-DISCLOSURE OF THE VIOLATIONS, PROMPT DIS- CLOSURE, CORRECTION AND REMEDIATION, PREVENTION OF RECUR- RENCE OF VIOLATIONS, NO REPETITION OF VIOLATION, NO HARM, ENDANGERMENT, OR VIOLATION OF ORDER, AND COOPERATION WITH EPA, ON WHETHER TO SEEK GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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