# Formosa Plastics-TX LA-LDAR Multi Media Consent Decree (R6 Lead)-2010
> **Judicial** · FY2006 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600010334`
- **Case Number:** 06-2006-3410
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Formosa Hydrocarbons Corp (complaint) (settlement)
- Formosa Plastic Corp. (complaint)
- Formosa Plastics Corp, Louisiana (complaint) (settlement)
- Formosa Plastics Corp, Texas (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Consent Decree-In its complaint, the United States alleged that Defendants violated Clean Air Act (``CAA'') provisions regulating the leaks of air pollutants from chemical manufacturing equipment and emissions of vinyl chloride, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (``RCRA'') provisions governing hazardous waste management, and Clean Water Act (``CWA'') wastewater discharge limits. The United States also alleges that Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas violated CAA provisions regulating benzene waste operations and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (``EPCRA'') toxic release inventory reporting obligations. The alleged violations occurred at co-located facilities in Point Comfort, Texas, owned and operated by Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas and Formosa Hydrocarbons Company, Inc., and a facility located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that is owned and operated by Formosa Plastics Corporation, Louisiana.

First Amendment to Consent Decree-WHEREAS, in 2011, pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Consent Decree, FPC TX notified EPA that FPC TX had failed to include in its LDAR program  pieces of equipment from a section of the hydrocarbons process unit that should have been included under applicable regulations.

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