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Environmental Proceedings
−Removed: On July 5, 2018, the Company received a draft consent decree from the U.S.
−Removed: Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, relating to the operation of steam-assisted flares at the Company’s olefins manufacturing facilities in Freeport, Texas;
−Removed: Plaquemine, Louisiana;
−Removed: Charles, Louisiana.
−Removed: On June 2, 2020, the EPA and the DOJ added Performance Materials NA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as an additional signatory to the existing draft consent decree based on the operation of steam-assisted flares at the Sabine olefins manufacturing facility in Orange, Texas (the "Orange, TX Facility").
−Removed: Performance Materials NA, Inc.
−Removed: acquired the Orange, TX Facility in February 2019 and became a subsidiary of the Company in April 2019.
−Removed: On January 19, 2021, a proposed final consent decree was filed in the U.S.
−Removed: District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to address these matters.
−Removed: Notice of the consent decree was published in the Federal Register on January 28, 2021 and public comments are required to be submitted within 30 days of that publication.
−Removed: The consent decree would require the Company to pay a $3 million civil penalty and $424,786 to specified local projects in Louisiana.
−Removed: The consent decree would further require the Company to install and operate additional air pollution control and monitoring technology on these steam-assisted flares at an estimated cost of approximately $294 million, to be completed over the next several years.
−Removed: On August 27, 2019, the EPA, DOJ, Texas Environmental Quality Board, and Texas Office of the Attorney General (the “Government Agencies”) added Performance Materials NA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as an additional signatory to an existing draft consent decree relating to alleged environmental violations at the Orange, TX Facility.
+Added: On August 27, 2019, the U.S.
+Added: Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), U.S.
+Added: Department of Justice, Texas Environmental Quality Board, and Texas Office of the Attorney General (collectively, the “Government Agencies”) added Performance Materials NA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as an additional signatory to an existing draft consent decree relating to alleged environmental violations at the Sabine olefins manufacturing facility in Orange, Texas (the "Orange, TX Facility").
Performance Materials NA, Inc.
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The alleged violations were first identified during multimedia environmental inspections that the EPA conducted at the Orange, TX Facility while under prior ownership in March 2009 and December 2015, and involve the management of materials in the Orange, TX Facility’s wastewater treatment system, hazardous waste management, and air emissions, including leak detection and repair.
−Removed: Discussions are ongoing between the Government Agencies, the Company, and the Orange, TX Facility’s prior owner, who is the other named signatory.
−Removed: On November 8, 2019, a proposed consent decree was filed in the U.S.
−Removed: District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Civil Action No.
−Removed: 1:19-cv-13292 between the Company and federal, state and tribal trustees to resolve allegations of natural resource damages arising from the historic operations of the Company’s Midland, Michigan, manufacturing facility.
−Removed: On November 14, 2019, a Notice of Lodging and Notice of Availability and Request for Comments on Draft Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment was published in the Federal Registe r.
−Removed: The DOJ filed a Joint Motion for Entry of the Consent Decree on May 8, 2020, which was granted and entered as a final order on July 20, 2020.
−Removed: The consent decree required the Company to pay a $15 million cash settlement to be used for trustee-selected remediation projects and $6.75 million to specified local projects managed by third parties.
−Removed: These funds were paid in December 2020.
−Removed: The consent decree further requires the Company to complete 13 additional environmental restoration projects which are valued by the trustees at approximately $77 million, to be conducted over the next several years.
−Removed: On December 18, 2020, Dow and several other parties received a complaint and proposed consent decree from the EPA relating to environmental contamination at the Gulfco Marine Maintenance Superfund Site in Freeport, Texas.
−Removed: The proposed consent decree includes a requirement for three defendants to make a collective payment of $1.2 million for EPA’s past response costs as well as an obligation to conduct certain response actions at the site.
−Removed: The proposed consent decree was submitted for notice and a 30-day public comment period on December 29, 2020.
+Added: The Government Agencies filed a proposed final consent decree in the U.S.
+Added: District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on October 13, 2021.
+Added: On January 27, 2022, the Government Agencies filed a motion asking the court to approve, sign and enter a modified consent decree that reflects the recent merger of Performance Materials NA, Inc.
+Added: with and into the Company.
+Added: On January 28, 2022, the modified consent decree was approved by the court and became effective.
+Added: On May 17, 2021, the Company received a civil complaint from the State of Texas ("State") on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
+Added: The complaint, filed in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas, alleges environmental violations at the Company's Freeport, Texas, site involving 12 discrete air emissions events.
+Added: The State is seeking monetary relief of no more than $1 million and injunctive relief to prevent recurrence.
+Added: On August 31, 2021, the State informed the Company that it would be including additional air emissions events in the complaint, which may impact the monetary relief sought by the State.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
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