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UNION CARBIDE - TEXAS CITY MAIN PLANT

Administrative - Formal · FY1997 · — · Source Agrees · 37350

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Case

Case Number
06-1997-0522
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, A CONNECTICUTT CORPORATION 3301 5TH AVENUE SOUTH TEXAS CITY, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS 77590 3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED A VIOLATION OF SECTION 313 OF EPCRA. THE RESPONDENT FAILED TO REPORT THE USE OF PACS AND PHENANTHRENE AT THE FACILI- TY ON ITS MSDS. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA WILL, AFTER REVIEW OF THE VIOLATION DISCLOSED, PROMPT DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND REMEDIATION, PREVENTION OF RE- CURRENCE, NO REPEAT VIOLATIONS, AND COOPERATION WITH EPA, ISSUE A FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO SEEK GRAVITY- BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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