Exhibit 10.30



















                        UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION
                     EXCESS LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN
                        Effective January 1, 1994



                  EXCESS LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN
                          ARTICLE I
                           General

      This is an excess long term disability plan (the "Plan") 
for participants in the Union Carbide Corporation Long Term 
Disability Plan (the "LTD Plan").  The Plan has been established 
to restore certain long term disability benefits to those 
participants entitled to benefits under the LTD Plan, whose 
benefits under the LTD Plan are, or will be, limited by the 
restrictions on recognizable compensation imposed by Section 
505(b)(7) of the Code.  The Plan is completely separate from the 
LTD Plan, is unfunded, and is not qualified for special tax 
treatment under the Code.

                          ARTICLE II
                          Definitions
      Section 1.  "Benefit" means the amount payable under this 
Plan as described in Article IV.
      Section 2.  "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
as amended from time to time.
      Section 3.  "Corporation" means Union Carbide Corporation 
and such of its subsidiary companies as shall, from time to time, 
participate in the LTD Plan.


     Section 4.  "Effective Date" means January 1, 1994.
     Section 5.  "LTD Plan" means the Union Carbide Corporation 
Long Term Disability Plan.  
     Section 6.  "Plan" means this Union Carbide Corporation 
Excess Long Term Disability Plan and any amendments thereto.
     Section 7.  "VEBA" means the Union Carbide Corporation Long 
Term Disability Plan Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary 
Associations, which are used to fund benefits for the LTD Plan.

                       ARTICLE III
                       Eligibility
    Section 1.  An employee will be eligible to receive a Benefit 
under the Plan, if, on or after the Effective Date, such employee 
becomes entitled to benefits under the LTD Plan and the amount of 
such employee's benefits under the LTD Plan are limited because 
the employee's compensation exceeds the limits imposed on the 
VEBA and LTD Plan in accordance with Section 505(b)(7) of the 
Code.  



                          ARTICLE IV
                       Amount of Benefit
     Section 1.  The monthly amount of Benefit payable to a 
participant shall be the excess, if any, of 
     (a)     the amount of such participant's monthly benefit
     under the LTD Plan computed under the provisions of the LTD
     Plan without regard to the limitations of Section 505(b)(7)
     of the Code, but not exceeding $10,000 per month,
                             over
     (b)     the amount of such participant's monthly benefit
     actually payable under the LTD Plan computed under the
     provisions of the LTD Plan and subject to the limitations of
     Section 505(b)(7) of the Code.

                                ARTICLE V
                                Payments
     Section 1.  Benefits shall be paid to a participant 
commencing with the month in which benefit payments to such 
participant commence under the LTD Plan, and shall cease or be 
suspended at the same time the participant ceases to receive (or 
has suspended) benefits under the LTD Plan.  
     Section 2.  Benefits shall be paid in the same form, and 
with the same adjustments and restrictions, as distributions to 
the participant from the LTD Plan.



                              ARTICLE VI
                             Miscellaneous
     Section 1.  The Administrative Committee of the Retirement 
Program Plan for Employees of Union Carbide Corporation and its 
Participating Subsidiary Companies and Certain Non-Qualified 
Employee Benefit Plans of Union Carbide Corporation shall be the 
administrator of the Plan and shall be responsible for the 
administration and operation of the Plan.  The committee may 
adopt such rules as it may deem necessary for the proper 
administration of this Plan and its decision in all matters 
involving the interpretation and application of the Plan shall be 
final, conclusive, and binding.
     Section 2.  The Corporation may amend or terminate the Plan 
at any time, but any such amendment or termination shall not 
adversely affect the rights of any participant then receiving 
Benefits under the Plan.  
     Section 3.  Except to the extent required by law, no 
assignment of the rights and interests of a participant or 
survivor under the Plan shall be permitted, nor shall such rights 
be subject to attachment or other legal process or debts.
     Section 4.  The rights of a participant shall be solely 
those of an unsecured creditor of the Corporation.  Any asset 
acquired by the Corporation in connection with the obligations 
assumed by it hereunder shall not be deemed to be held under any 
trust for the benefit of a participant or to be security for the


performance of the obligations of the Corporation, but shall be, 
and remain, a general, unpledged, unrestricted asset of the 
Corporation.
     Section 5.  Nothing contained in this Plan and no action 
taken pursuant to the provisions of this Plan shall create or be 
construed to create a trust of any kind, or a fiduciary 
relationship between the Corporation and a participant.
     Section 6.  Nothing contained in the Plan shall give any 
participant the right to continue in the employment of the 
Corporation, or affect the right of the Corporation to discharge 
a participant.
     Section 7.  The Plan shall be construed and governed in 
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

                                  UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION


                                  By: M.A. Kessinger