# FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38356`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0664
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 309(A) OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT ( CWA ), 33 U.S.C.     SECTION 1319(A).                                          2. FORMOSA PLASTICS CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION         GULF STATES ROAD                                             BATON ROUGE, EAST BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70821            3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 301 OF THE CWA BY     DISCHARGING POLLUTANTS FROM ITS FACILITY THAT EXCEEDED       PERMITTED EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS, AS SHOWN IN THE CERTIFIED    DMRS FILED WITH EPA.                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 309(A) OF THE CWA, EPA     ISSUED AN ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER (AO) TO THE RESPONDENT.       THE AO ORDERS THE RESPONDENT TO: (A) WITHIN 30 DAYS, TAKE    WHATEVER CORRECTIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY ELIMINATE AND        PREVENT RECURRENCE OF THE VIOLATIONS; (B) WITHIN 30 DAYS,    SUBMIT A WRITTEN REPORT DETAILING THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS       TAKEN TO CORRECT THE VIOLATIONS AND HOW THEY WILL PREVENT    RECURRENCE; AND (C) IF NOT POSSIBLE TO CORRECT THE VIOLA-    TIONS IN 30 DAYS, SUBMIT A PLAN TO DO SO IN THE SHORTEST     TIME POSSIBLE.

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