# HOWMET CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `19937`
- **Case Number:** 03-2002-0156
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HOWMET CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Operating a hazardous waste storage facility without a permit; failing to perform or document some required daily and weekly inspections of certain tanks containing caustic wastes; failing to minimize the potential for releases from a tank of waste potassium hydroxide (KOH); failing to record the repair of a tank containing waste KOH, storing land disposal restricted (LDR) waste, storage of which is prohibited, in violation of the regulatory conditions to qualify for exemption from the prohibition; storing used lamps containing mercury and/or lead without making hazardous waste and LDR determinations; offering used lamps for disposal to a facility that had not obtained an EPA ID number, and shipping the used lamps for land disposal without preparing manifests and LDR waste notic

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