# Battery Recycling Company, Inc.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2012 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3000009540`
- **Case Number:** 02-2012-7101
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Battery Recycling Company, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Respondent cited for several violations, including: Failure to make hazardous waste determinations; 
Failure to keep containers holding hazardous waste closed; Failure to minimize the risk of fire, explosion or release of hazardous waste/constituents in its handling and management of hazardous waste;Failure to obtain a permit for the storage of hazardous waste (or to satisfy the conditions required to store hazardous waste without a permit); 
Failure to obtain a permit for the treatment of hazardous waste;Failure to meet the training requirements set forth in the regulations for facility personnel;Failure to have a complete contingency plan for the Battery Recycling facility; and Failure to comply with applicable Land Disposal Restriction requirements. 

Relief Requested:
Make hazardous waste determinations including whenever a material or process change at the Facility may affect a hazardous waste characterization; Eliminate or otherwise minimize the release to air, soil or surface water of lead and/or dust containing other hazardous waste constituents resulting from a number of specified operations and activities involved in the generation, handling, storage and disposal of lead-containing wastes; Eliminate or minimize the release of lead and/or dust containing other hazardous waste constituents resulting from evaporation that occurs during wastewater and stormwater runoff from the lead smelting operations discharged to the facility’s wastewater treatment plant;Elimin

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