# STERLING CHEMICALS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38915`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0240
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- STERLING CHEMICALS, INC. (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. STERLING CHEMICALS, INC.                                     201 BAY STREET                                               TEXAS CITY, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS 77590                 3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SLEF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED        TWO VIOLATION OF OF SECTION 3005 OF RCRA BY FAILING TO       MEET THE EXEMPTION REQUIREMENTS OF 90-DAY OR LESS STOR-      AGE WITHOUT A PERMIT OR INTERIM STATUS.                   4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCOVERY, DISCLOSURE, COR-     RECTION AND PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE, AND PAST COMPLIANCE    HISTORY, AND MAKE A FINAL DETERMINATION TO SEE IF THE        RESPONDENT QUALIFIES FOR THE SELF-POLICING POLICY AND IF     EPA WILL SEEK GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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