# KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39423`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0759
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** Y
## Defendants
- KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION
## Summary

1. VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO THE EPA'S POLICY GUID-      ANCE,  INCENTIVES FOR SELF-POLICING: DISCOVERY, DISCLOS-     URE, CORRECTION AND PREVENTION OF VIOLATION.              2. KAISER ALUMINUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION - ALUMINA DIGEST-     ION AREA                                                     1111 AIRLINE HIGHWAY                                         GRAMERCY, SAINT JAMES PARISH, LOUISIANA 70052             3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED        POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 111 OF THE CAA AND SECTION    203 OF TSCA BY THE RELEASE OF 1,000 LBS. OR MORE OF SO-      DIUM HYDROXIDE AND AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY OF FRIABLE ASBES-     TOS INTO THE ENVIRONMENT AS A RESULT OF AN EXPLOSION THAT    OCCURRED ON JUL. 5, 1999 AT THE ALUMINA DIGESTION AREA OF    THE FACILITY.                                             4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND      PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE OF VIOLATION AND MAKE A DETER-      MINATION AS TO THE RESPONDENT'S QUALIFICATION TO THE         SELF-POLICING POLICY AND IF EPA WILL SEEK GRAVITY-BASED      PENALTIES OR NOT.

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