# WITCO CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38015`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0321
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WITCO CORPORATION (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. WITCO CORPORATION                                            471 HIGHWAY 3142                                             TAFT, SAINT CHARLES PARISH, LOUISIANA 70057               3. RESPONDENT, PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, VOLUN-     TARILY DISCLOSES VIOLATIONS OF EPCRA 313, CAA 110 AND        CERCLA 103A. THE RESPONDENT DISCLOSED THAT ONE OF THE OP-    ERATING UNITS AT THE PLANT THAT MANUFACTURES M-TOLUIC        ACID MAY HAVE BEEN RELEASING TO THE AIR M-XYLENE IN EX-      CESS OF ITS PERMIT LIMIT AND MAY HAVE BEEN EMITTING OTHER    AIR POLLUTANTS ABSENT A PERMIT FOR SUCH EMISSIONS. ALSO      THERE MAY BE SOME UNPERMITTED SOURCES OF AIR EMISSIONS       FROM THAT UNIT. IT ALSO APPEARS THE PLANT MAY HAVE 1) UN-    DER REPORTED EMISSIONS OF M-XYLENE AND OTHER POLLUTANTS      FROM THE UNIT IN SOME OF ITS TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY         (TRI) REPORTS AND 2) FAILED TO REPORT UNPERMITTED RE-        LEASES OF M-XYLENE AND OTHER SUBSTANCES IN EXCESS OF THE     CERCLA REPORTABLE QUANTITIES.                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL MAKE A FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO SEEK GRAV-     ITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT AFTER A REVIEW OF THE RESPOND-    ENT'S DISCOVERY, PROMPT AND VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE, CORREC-    TION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION.

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