# AMERICAN PACKAGING CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32993`
- **Case Number:** 05-2001-0353
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- AMERICAN PACKAGING CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

APC INSTALLED A SOLVENT RECOVERY SYSTEM SOMETIME AFTER THE   LAST WDNR INSPECTION (1992).  THIS SYSTEM ACCUMULATES        SPENT SOLVENT FROM THREE LARGE PARTS WASHERS INTO A RCRA     HAZARDOUS WASTE TANK.  THE TANK IS USED TO STORE THE SPENT   SOLVENTS PRIOR TO THEM BEING CONVEYED TO THE DISTILLATION    UNIT.  AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION, APC WAS NOT MANAGING   THESE MATERIALS AS HAZARDOUS WASTE FROM THE POINT OF         GENERATION UP UNTIL THEY HAD ENTERED THE STILL.  THIS        SUGGEST THAT APC WAS VIOLATING WISCONSIN REQUIREMENTS ASSOC- IATED WITH NOT HAVING PREFORMED A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETER-     MINATION AND ALL TANK REQUIREMENTS FOR LQG'S FOUND AT        NR 615.05(4)(A)(3) AND THE TECHNICAL TANK STANDARDS FOUND    WITHIN NR 645.  APC COULD ALSO BE IN VIOLATION OF SUBPART    BB & CC REQUIREMENTS FOR ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT TO THE TANK AND THE TANK ITSELF.  ECAB HAS MADE AN INITIAL DETERMINATION     THAT THE DISTILLATION UNIT WOULD NOT BE SUBJECT TO AIR       EMISSION REQUIREMENTS, NOR THE EQUIPMENT THAT IS ANCILLARY   TO THE DISTILLATION UNIT.

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