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Company: Formosa Plastics
Current Parent Company: Formosa Plastics
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Penalty: $46,000
Year: 2007
Date: February 15, 2007
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: This Order gave the Company the choice of paying $40,000 (plus $6,000 cost recovery) as penalty or paying $20,000 (plus $6,000 cost recovery) plus implementing a $40,000 environmental improvement project to upgrade valves to avoid future releases. The order addressed three VCM releases, three inprocess wastewater releases, two visible emissions exceedances, and a pair of failed stack tests for hydrogen chloride.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Delaware
Facility City: Delaware
HQ Country of Current Parent: Taiwan
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
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