On March 9, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Brunswick Division, entered a Consent Decree in the matter of The United States and the State of Georgia v. Renessenz LLC, f/k/a LyondellBassell Flavors & Fragrances, LLC. The settlement provides for injunctive relief to resolve violations of RCRA resulting from waste handling activities at a facility owned and operated by a corporate predecessor to Renessenz LLC (Renessenz) on Colonels Island in Glynn County, Georgia (the Facility). Sampling of the Facility?s wastewater treatment system had revealed the presence of hazardous waste exhibiting the toxicity characteristic for benzene (D018) and for methyl ethyl ketone (D035), and/or the characteristic of ignitability (D001). In conjunction with the construction of an entirely new wastewater treatment plant, Renessenz will undertake regulatory closure of three hazardous waste management units associated with the existing treatment system. Renessenz submitted a closure plan for an on-site surface impoundment on March 3, 2015. Unless it can demonstrate clean closure of the three units, Renessenz must apply for, and comply with, a permit that would be issued by Georgia for unit-specific post-closure care as well as facility-wide corrective action.
The Clean Closure Report is expected on or before June 10, 2015. If the facility demonstrates Clean Closure in that report, the requirements of the Consent Decree will have been met and the enforcement acti