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CABOT CORPORATION - CANAL PLANT

Administrative - Formal · FY1998 · — · Source Agrees · 38218

Penalty
Cost recovery
$250
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-1998-0526
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, DISCLO- SURE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION. 2. CABOT CORPORATION - CANAL PLANT 272 CABOT LANE & HIGHWAY 317 FRANKLIN, SAINT MARY PARISH, LOUISIANA 70538 3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, VOLUNTARILY DISCLOSED A VIOLATION OF SECTIONS 103(A) OF CERCLA AND 313 OF EPCRA. THE RESPONDENT BELIEVES IT FAILED TO REPORT STORAGE OR USE OABOVE THE RQ OF CARBONYL SULFIDE TO SERC/ LEPC/FIRE DEPT. AND FAILED TO NOTIFIED TO THE NRC IMMED- ATELY AFTER RELEASES OF CARBONYL SULFIDE INTO THE EN- VIRONMENT FROM THE FACILITIES. 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA, AFTER A REVIEW OF THE RESPONDENT'S VOLUNTARY DISCOVERY AND DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION, REMEDIATION AND PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATIONS, WILL ISSUE A FINAL DETER- MINATION ON WHETHER TO SEEK GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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