# UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `40977`
- **Case Number:** 06-2001-0074
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION (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. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION                                    P.O. BOX 471                                                 TEXAS CITY, GALVESTON COUNTY, TEXAS 77592-0471            3. RESPONDENT, UNDER THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, DISCLOSED A      VIOLATION OF THE RELEASE REPORTING PROVISIONS OF CERCLA      103A AND EPCRA 312, TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY REPORTING        UNDER EPCRA 313, AND THE NESHAP REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION    112 OF THE CAA FOR A RELEASE TO THE AIR FROM A MOTOR         VALVE IN THE ETHANOL UNIT AT UNION CARBIDE.               4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO THE SELF-POLICING POLICY, EPA      WILL REVIEW THE RESPONDENT'S DISCLOSURE, CORRECTION AND      PREVENTION OF VIOLATION, AND PAST COMPLIANCE HISTORY, AND    MAKE A DETERMINATION 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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