# TICONA POLYMERS, INC. - CELANESE AMERICAS CORP.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40529`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0914
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- TICONA POLYMERS, INC. (settlement)
## 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. TICONA POLYMERS INC.                                         BUSINESS ROUTE 77 SOUTH OF THE CITY                          BISHOP, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS 78343                        3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED        VIOLATIONS OF THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 313      OF EPCRA BY FAILING TO SUBMIT FORM RS FOR NITRATES FOR       THE REPOTING YEARS 1995-1998, AND FOR METHANOL RELEASES      FOR THE REPORTING YEARS 1997 AND 1998.                    4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND      PREVENTION OF RECURRENCE, AND PAST COMPLIANCE HISTORY,       AND MAKE A DETERMINATION AS TO THE RESPONDENT'S QUALIFI-     CATION TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, AND IF EPA WILL SEEK     GRAVITY-BASED PENALTIES OR NOT.

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