# GEORGIA GULF CHEMICALS AND VINYLS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40589`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-0974
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- GEORGIA GULF CHEMICALS AND VINYLS, INC. (complaint) (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. 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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