Dover Chemical Corporation has agreed to pay $1.4 million in civil penalties to resolve violations relating to its unauthorized manufacturing of chemical substances at chemical manufacturing facilities located in Dover, Ohio and Hammond, Indiana. The settlement resolves Dover Chemical's violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) premanufacturing notice obligations for its production of various chlorinated paraffin products. Dover Chemical produces the vase majority of the chlorinated products sold in the United States.
As part of the settlement, Dover Chemical has ceased manufacturing short-chain chlorinated paraffins, the most worrisome of the chlorinated paraffin in terms of persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic characteristics. Dover Chemical will also submit premanufacturing notices to EPA for various medium-chain and long-chain chlorinated paraffin products.