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The description is included per Regulation S-K, Item 103(c) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
−Removed: Divested Neoprene Facility, La Place, Louisiana - EPA Compliance Inspection
+Added: EIDP Divested Neoprene Facility, La Place, Louisiana - EPA Compliance Inspection
In 2016, the EPA conducted a focused compliance investigation at the Denka Performance Elastomer LLC (“Denka”) neoprene manufacturing facility in La Place, Louisiana.
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Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”), the Company (originally through EIDP), and Denka began discussions in the spring of 2017 relating to the inspection conclusions and allegations of noncompliance arising under the Clean Air Act, including leak detection and repair.
−Removed: DuPont, Denka, EPA, DOJ and DEQ are continuing these discussions, which include potential settlement options.
+Added: Department of Justice (“DOJ”), the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“Louisiana DEQ”), EIDP and Denka began discussions in the spring of 2017 relating to the inspection conclusions and allegations of noncompliance arising under the Clean Air Act, including leak detection and repair.
+Added: For many years, Denka, EIDP, and DuPont, as the current landlord, continued to work with the EPA, DOJ and Louisiana DEQ to achieve an amicable resolution.
+Added: On February 28, 2023, the United States Government, on behalf of the EPA, filed a lawsuit against Denka in Federal Court in Louisiana claiming that Denka’s continued chloroprene emissions constitute an imminent damage to the public.
+Added: A DuPont subsidiary is identified as a defendant in this matter simply as a landlord/property owner.
+Added: The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief requiring Denka to eliminate the alleged imminent and substantial endangerment posed by its chloroprene emissions from the facility.
+Added: In January 2025, the Court set a pre-trial schedule with an anticipated 10-day trial to begin in the second quarter 2025.
New Jersey Directive PFAS
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The NJDEP seeks past and future costs of investigating, monitoring, testing, treating, and remediating New Jersey’s drinking water and waste systems, private drinking water wells and natural resources including groundwater, surface water, soil, sediments and biota.
−Removed: The Directive seeks certain information as to future costs and information related to the historic uses of PFAS and replacement chemicals including “information ranging from use and discharge of the chemicals through wastewater treatment plants, air emissions, and sales of products containing the chemicals to current development, manufacture, use and release of newer chemicals in the state.”
+Added: The Directive seeks certain information as to future costs and information related to the historical uses of PFAS and replacement chemicals including “information ranging from use and discharge of the chemicals through wastewater treatment plants, air emissions, and sales of products containing the chemicals to current development, manufacture, use and release of newer chemicals in the state.”
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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