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Administrative - Formal · FY1986 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 2010

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Case

Case Number
02-1986-0025
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
N
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

FAILURE TO MANIFEST SPILL RESIDUE; FAILURE TO DESCRIBE AR- RANGEMENTS TO COORDINATE EMERGENCY SERVICES; FAILURE OF CON- TINGENCY PLAN TO LIST DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT; FAILURE TO SUBMIT COPIES OF THE CONTINGENCY PLAN TO STATE & LOCAL EMER- GENCY RESPONSE TEAMS. ON 11/15/84, THERE WAS SPILL OF APPROXIMATELY 40 GALLONS OF METHYL ISOCYANATE ( MIC ) AT FACILITY. RECORDS INDICA- TED THAT THE SPILL RESIDUE WAS TREATED W/ CARBON AND WATER FORMING UREA & BIURET. THIS RESIDUE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY STORED IN TWO 55-GALLON DRUMS PRIOR TO BEING SHIPPED AS A NON-HAZ- ARDOUS WASTE TO CECOS INTERNATIONAL, NIAGARA FALLS, NY. DESPITE TREATMENT OF THE MIC SPILL, THE RESIDUE REMAINED A HAZARDOUS WASTE. RESPONDENT FAILED TO MANIFEST THE SPILL RESIDUE AS A HAZARDOUS WASTE, &, THEREFORE HAS VIOLATED 6 NYCRR 372.2(B)(5)(I). AT 2/5 AND 2/6/85 INSPECTIONS, RESPONDENT'S CONTINGENCY PLAN DID NOT DESCRIBE THE REQUIRED ARRANGEMENTS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION 373-2.3(G). IT DID NOT INCLUDE A LIST OF ALL EMERGENCY & DECONTAMINATION EQUIPMENT, WHERE THIS EQUIPMENT IS REQUIRED AND THE PLAN WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO ALL LOCAL PO- LICE DEPTS., FIRE DEPTS., HOSPITALS AND STATE AND LOCAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS THAT MAY BE CALLED UPON TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY SERVICES.

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