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Georgia-Based Company Agrees to Reduce Hazardous Emissions Settlement

(Atlanta, Ga. – December 17, 2007) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality announced today a settlement with Georgia Gulf Chemicals and Vinyls, LLC (Georgia Gulf), headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. Under the agreement, Georgia Gulf will perform corrective measures to prevent the discharge of up to 12,000 pounds of vinyl chloride per year from entering an unlined surface impoundment at its Aberdeen, Miss. polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing facility.

Georgia Gulf will implement several standard operating procedures to ensure compliance with the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Clean Air Act (CAA). Further, Georgia Gulf has also agreed to comply with specific Clean Water Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act requirements (EPCRA).

For more information, contact:

Gale Bonanno
Special Litigation & Projects Division
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave, NW MC 2243A
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-2243
bonanno.gale@epa.gov

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