RCRA Settlement Reached for Federal Aviation Administration's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma : EPA negotiated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CA/FO) to address violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act at its Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The CA/FO requires FAA to pay a penalty of $67,210, and orders compliance. The violations were discovered when the facility was inspected in December 2001. The CA/FO was negotiated with FAA prior to filing a complaint using the streamlined process available in the Consolidated Rules of Practice. The CA/FO alleges 10 separate counts with the majority of violations relating to the facility's failure to meet the permit exemption requirements for a RCRA generator. The counts in the CA/FO include failure to label, date, and close containers, failure to manage satellite accumulation areas appropriately, failure to update hazardous waste training, failure to maintain an adequate Contingency Plan, failure to make hazardous waste determinations, failure to label used oil tanks and containers, and failure to comply with reporting requirements. EPA is pleased with the efforts that the FAA Mike Monroney Center has made to improve its hazardous waste management programs, and to reduce the likelihood that similar violations occur in the future.
[Contacts: Melanie Garvey, Enforcement Officer/OECA,FFEO/202-564-2579; An