# E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Company - CERCLA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `86002`
- **Case Number:** 05-2002-0347
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- E.I. DuPont de Nemours (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

'On July 11, 1998, at 4:40 p.m.,E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Toledo, Ohio had a 1,690 pound release of xylene.  Xylene is a hazardous substance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act with a reportable quantity of 100 pounds.  This 16 times the RQ.  The person in charge of the facility called the National Response Center on July 12, 1998, at 1:43 a.m. or nine hours and three minutes after the incident.'

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