# DELTECH CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1997 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37696`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0871
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- DELTECH CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(B) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(B).                                          2. DELTECH CORPORATION                                          11911 SCENIC HIGHWAY                                         BATON ROUGE, EAST BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70807            3. DELTECNCORP. OPERATES A FACILITY IN EAST BATON ROUGE PAR-    ISH IN LOUISIANA. THE FACILITY MANUFACTURES VINYL TYPE       MONOMERS, DIISOPROPENYLBENZENE, DIVINYLBENZENE, VINYL        TOLUENE, AND MONOCHLOROACETIC ACID, WITH VINYLBENZENE        (STYRENE) BEING THE MAJOR PRODUCT. THIS FACILITY IS REGU-    LATED BY THE ORGANIC CHEMICALS, PLASTICS AND SYNTHETIC       FIBERS EFFLUENT CATEGORY. DELTECH DISCHARGES TO THE          MISSISSIPPI RIVER VIA THE BATON ROUGE HARBOR CANAL.          A SERIES OF WARNING LETTERS AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLAINTS    FILED BY EPA REGION 6 OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS HAVE FAILED    TO BRING THE FACILITY INTO COMPLIANCE WITH ITS NPDES PER-    MIT.                                                         THE VIOLATIONS OF THIS ACTION IS BASED ON THE EXCEEDANCE     OF THE EFFLUENT LIMITS FOR BOD, DO, PH, TSS, AND ETHYL       BENZENE OF ITS PERMIT ON NUMEROUS OCASSIONS.              4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(B) OF THE CWA, EPA     REFERS THIS DIRECT REFERRAL TO DOJ REQUESTING INITIATION     OF A CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE RESPONDENT. EPA SEEKS PEN-     ALTIES AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN ORDER THAT THE FACILITY      MAY COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH ITS

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