# CHEMICAL RECOVERY SYSTEMS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1984 · — · Source Agrees
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25333`
- **Case Number:** 05-1984-0093
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Source Agrees
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMICAL RECOVERY SYSTEMS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

A RCRA COMPLIANCE INSPECTION OF THE FACILITY WAS CONDUCTED BY THE MDNR AS AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF U.S. EPA ON   APRIL 17, 1984.                                                THE FOLLOWING VIOLATIONS WERE OBSERVED DURING THE MDNR     APRIL 17, 1984, INSPECTION:                                    (A) FAILURE, BY STORING CONTAINERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE OUT-       SIDE THE CONTAINER STORAGE PAD, TO MAINTAIN AND OPER-        ATE THE FACILITY TO MINIMIZE THE POSSIBILITY OF A      FIRE, EXPLOSION, OR ANY UNPLANNED SUDDEN OR NON-SUDDEN             RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE OR HAZARDOUS WASTE CONSTI-        TUENTS TO AIR, SOIL, OR SURFACE WATER WHICH COULD            THREATEN HUMAN HEALTH OR THE ENVIRONMENT AS REQUIRED         BY 40 CFR 265.31.                                        (B) FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AISLE SPACE TO ALLOW THE UNOB-           STRUCTED MOVEMENT OF PERSONNEL, FIRE PROTECTION EQUIP-       MENT, SPILL CONTROL EQUIPMENT, AND DECONTAMINATION           EQUIPMENT TO ANY AREA OF FACILITY OPERATION IN AN            EMERGENCY AS REQUIRED BY 40 CFR 265.35.                  (C) REGULATION 40 CFR 270.71(A)(3) REQUIRES THAT DURING          INTERIM STATUS A FACILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE DESIGN        CAPACITIES SPECIFIED IN PART A OF THE PERMIT APPLICA-        TION.  THE RESPONDENT FILED A REVISED PART A PERMIT          APPLICATION WITH U.S. EPA ON APRIL 1, 1984, WHICH            INDICATED THE DESIGN CAPACITY OF CONTAINER STORAGE TO        BE 25,000 GALLONS (EQUIVALENT TO

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