# FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38243`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0551
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $25K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $5K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 113(D) OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT ( CAA ), 42 U.S.C.       SECTION 7413(D).                                          2. FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION                                 P.O. BOX 271 (GULF STATES ROAD)                              BATON ROUGE, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA 70821     3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 112 OF THE CAA BY     (1) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH PVC REACTOR REQUIREMENTS FOR      EXHAUST GAS STREAMS, (2) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH REQUIRE-     MENTS FOR MANUAL VENTING OF GASES, (3) FAILURE TO COMPLY     WITH EMISSIONS FOR ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE, VINYL CHLORIDE,      AND POLYVINYL CHLORIDE PLANTS, (4) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH    LEAK DETECTION AND ELIMINATION REQUIREMENTS, (5) FAILURE     TO COMPLY WITH EMISSIONS TESTING REQUIREMENTS, AND (6)       VIOLATING THE HON STANDARDS FOR OPEN-ENDED VALVES OR         LINES.                                                    4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 113(D) OF THE CAA, EPA     PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $37,647 FOR THE VIOLATIONS       CITED.

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