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GEORGIA GULF CHEMICALS AND VINYLS, INC.

Administrative - Formal · FY2000 · — · Source Agrees · 40589

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Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-2000-0974
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Source Agrees
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
Y

Defendants (1)

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. GEORGIA GULF CHEMICALS AND VINYLS, INC. 26100 HIGHWAY 405 SOUTH PLAQUEMINE, IBERVILLE PARISH, LOUISIANA 70765-0629 3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED VIOLATIONS OF SECTION 608 OF THE CAA BY: 1) EXCESSIVE LEAKAGE; 2) REPAIRS AND RETROFITS HAVE NOT ADEQUATELY RE- DUCED LEAKAGE; 3) TIMELY REPORTING AND RECORDKEEPING PRACTICES HAVE NOT BEEN OBSERVED; AND 4) UNCERTIFIED COM- PANY TECHNICIANS MAY HAVE MAINTAINED, SERVICED OR REPAIR- ED THE EQUIPMENT. 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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