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IN THE MATTER OF BASF CORPORATION, CHEMICAL DIV.

No. 87 CA 0625.

538 So.2d 635 (1988)

In the Matter of BASF CORPORATION, CHEMICAL DIVISION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 1989.

Writ Denied April 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Percy III, Daria Burgess, New Orleans, for appellant Sierra Club and the Ascension Parish Residents Against Toxic Pollution.

Roland T. Huson, III, General Counsel, Dept. of Environmental Quality, William D'Armond, Maureen Harbourt, Baton Rouge, for appellee State of La.

Before WATKINS, CRAIN and ALFORD, JJ.

WATKINS, Judge.

This appeal challenges the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ's) November 18, 1986 settlement with BASF Corporation, Chemical Division, regarding five separate violations at the BASF facility in Geismar, Louisiana of the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act (Act) and the Louisiana Air Quality Regulations.

FACTS

The DEQ began investigating BASF in April of 1986, after BASF reported a release of 50 to 75 pounds of phosgene...

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