# UNION CARBIDE - TAFT PLANT
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37322`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0493
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION CARBIDE - TAFT PLANT (complaint) (settlement)
## 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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