# GENERAL AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION (GATC)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38695`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0014
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GENERAL AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## 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. GENERAL AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION (GATC)           ROUTE 79                                                     HEARNE, ROBERTSON COUNTY, TEXAS 77859                     3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, VOLUNTARILY      DISCLOSED VIOLATIONS OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA. THE RESPOND-     ENT FAILED TO MAKE A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMINATION.       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL MAKE A FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO SEEK           GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT AFTER A REVIEW OF THE RE-     SPONDENT'S DISCOVERY AND DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND PRE-     VENTION OF RECURRENCE OF VIOLATIONS AND ITS PAST COMPLI-     ANCE HISTORY.

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