# WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40858`
- **Case Number:** 06-2000-1245
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $1K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 109 OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE,     COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT ( CERCLA ), AS AMENDED,      42 U.S.C. SECTION 9609.                                   2. WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION                          900 HIGHWAY 108, P.O. BOX 2449                               SULPHUR, CALCASIEU PARISH, LOUISIANA 70664                3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF THE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS    OF SECTION 103(A) OF CERCLA BY FAILING TO NOTIFY THE NRC     IMMEDIATELY AFTER HAVING KNOWLEDGE THAT A RELEASE OF         BUTADIENE FROM THE FACILITY INTO THE ENVIRONMENT HAD         OCCURRED.                                                 4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 109 OF CERCLA, EPA PRO-    POSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $13,750 FOR THE VIOOATION CITED.

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