# KATAHDIN ANALYTICAL LAB
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `1709`
- **Case Number:** 01-2002-0071
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- KATAHDIN ANALYTICAL (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EPA INSPECTORS FROM THE RCRA OFFICE CONDUCTED A MULTI-    MEDIA COMPLIANCE INSPECTION ON JUNE 14 AND 15, 2000. EPA     ISSUED A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 3007 OF RCRA ON JUNE 27, 2000. KATAHDIN PROVIDED A RESPONSE TO THIS  INFORMATION REQUEST ON JULY 31, 2000. INSPECTORS IDENTIFIED  VIOLATIONS OF RCRA REQUIREMENTS.                                THE RCRA COMPLAINT ALLEGES VIOLATIONS BASED ON OBSERVA-   TIONS MADE DURING THE RCRA INSPECTION. THE MOST ENVIRONMEN-  TALLY SIGNIFICANT RCRA COUNTS ARE BASED ON KATAHDIN'S        STORAGE OF HUNDREDS OF CONTAINERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FOR     GREATER THAN 90 DAYS W/O A PERMIT, AND W/O COMPLYING WITH    THE STATE OF MAINE HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES. IN FACT KATAHDIN STORED NUMEROUS CONTAINERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE FOR   OVER FOUR YEARS W/O A PERMIT. AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION, THE CONTENTS OF MOST OF THE WASTES WERE KNOWN. HOWEVER,      WASTE DETERMINATION HAD NOT BEEN MADE FOR MANY LAB-PACK      WASTES WHICH WERE NOT LABELED AS HAZARDOUS WASTE. PROPER     AISLE SPACING WAS NOT MAINTAINED. CONTAINERS WERE STACKED ON TOP OF CABINETS AND IN AISLES. BASED ON THE NATURE OF THE    WASTES AND THE POTENTIAL THREAT POSED BY THEIR MISMANAGEMENT THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL POTENTIAL FOR HARM TO HUMAN HEALTH   AND THE ENVIRONMENT FROM A RELEASE, SPILL, FIRE OR EXPOLSION CIVIL PENALTY:  THE RCRA CIVIL PENALTY POLICY YEILDS A       PENALTY OF APPROXIMATELY ONE MILLION DOLLARS. A PRELIMINARY  REVIEW OF KATAHDIN'S FINANCIAL CONDITIO

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