# BERWIND PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19305`
- **Case Number:** 03-2000-0624
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BERWIND PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2000, A COMPLAINT, COMPLIANCE ORDER AND     NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING ( COMPLAINT  WAS ISSUED BY REGION III PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A)(1) AND (G) OF THE     RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C.   SECTION 6928(A)(1) AND (G), AGAINST BERWIND PHARMACEUTICAL   SERVICES, INC. ( RESPONDENT  OR BERWIND ).  THE COMPLAINT    ALLEGES VIOLATIONS OF THE RCRA SUBTITLE C, 42 U.S.C SECTION  6921-6939(E), THE REGULATIONS THEREUNDER AT 40 C.F.R PARTS   260-271, AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA'S AUTHORIZED   REGULATIONS GOVERNING HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, 25 PA      CODE CHAPTER 75.  SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA AUTHORIZES EPA TO  TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION WHENEVER IT IS DETERMINED THAT A     PERSON IS IN VIOLATION OF ANY REQUIREMENT OF RCRA SUBTITLE   C OR ANY REGULATION OF A STATE HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAM WHICH HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED BY EPA.  THE COMPLAINT AGAINST BERWIND,  THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF A FACILITY ( FACILITY ), LOCATED   AT 415 MOYER BLVD, WEST POINT IN PA, WAS ISSUED BECAUSE      BERWIND DID NOT HAVED A PERMIT OR INTERIM STATUS FOR ITS     FACILITY AND FAILED TO QUALIFY FOR THE  LESS THAN 90 DAY     GENERATOR STORAGE EXEMPTION FROM PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS.    IN ADDITION, BERWIND FAILED TO KEEP ITS CONTAINER, (55       GALLON DRUM) CONTAINING HAZARDOUS WASTE, CLOSED.  BERWIND    ALSO DID NOT SUBMIT ITS UPDATED CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR THE     FACILITY TO LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL.  FINALLY,    BERWIND STORED HAZARDOUS WASTE, REST

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