# PFIZER PHARMACEUTICALS LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8238`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-0856
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PFIZER PHARMACEUTICALS LLC (settlement)
## Summary

*    06/30/01 - AUDIT POLICY DISCLOSURE DATE.                  AS A RESULT OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT AND SUBSEQUENT DETAILED  CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHEMICAL REACTIONS OCCURRING IN     THEIR COGENERATION STACKS, PFIZER DETERMINED THAT IT WAS     MANUFACTUR'G AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE AT THE ELEVATED TEMPERATURES IN ITS COGENERATION STACK CAUSING IT TO DISSOCIATE TO AMMO-  ONIA AND WATER.  THE FAILURE TO SUBMIT IN A TIMELY MANNER    COMPLETE AND CORRECT FORMS R FOR AMMONIA FOR THE CALENDAR    YEARS 1998 AND 1999 CONSTITUTES A FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH     SECTION 313 OF EPCRA, 42 U.S.C. SECTION 11023, AND WITH 40   C.F.R.  372.30.  THE NEW FORM R REPORTS WERE MAILED TO THE  USEPA ON JUNE 30, 2001.                                        PHIZER ALSO DETERMINED AS A RESULT OF THE INTERNAL AUDIT   THAT THE AMOUNT OF SULFURIC ACID THAT WAS TREATED(NEUTRA-    LIZED) IN THEIR WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WAS NOT SUBJECT  TO EPCRA SECT/313 REPORTING REGULATIONS.  THESE AMOUNTS OF   SULFURIC ACID WERE OVER REPORTED FROM 1994 TO 1999 AND       RANGED FROM AROUND 60,000 TO 20,000 POUNDS PER YEAR.  AS A   RESULT OF THE CHEMICAL PROCESS ANALYSIS CONCERNING THEIR     COGENERATION STACKS, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SULFURIC ACID    AEROSOL STAK RELEASES NEEDED TO BE ADDED TO THE FORM R RE-   PORTS FOR SULFURIC ACID. THE FAILURE TO REPORT A REASONABLE  ESTIMATE OF THE ANNUAL RELEASE OF SULFURIC ACID AEROSOLS TO  AIR (0 TO 500 LBS) AS A STACK EMISSION AND THE INCORRECT RE- PORTING OF THE QUANTITY OF SULFFURIC

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