9/4/14 - CONSENT AGMT ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $74,900, PLUS INTEREST, DUE IN 4 EQUAL INSTALLMENTS.
ALLEGATIONS:
ON 11/30/11 - GAEPD'S HAZARDOUS WASTE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM CONDUCTED A HAZARDOUS WASTE INSPECTION AT THE FACILITY AND DISCOVERED THAT RESPONDENT HAD BEEN GENERATING AND STORING HAZ WASTE W/OUT HAVING NOTIFIED GAEPD OF HAZ WASTE ACTIVITY AND W/OUT HAVING RECEIVED AN ID NUMBER.
ON JAN 18 AND 30, 2012, EPA COMPLIANCE EVALUATION INSPECTION (CEIs) AT THE FACILITY. AT THAT TIME, RESPONDENT WAS AN LQG OF HAZ WASTE. INSPECTORS OBSERVED THE WAREHOUSE PORTION OF THE FACILITY FILLED WITH AN APPROXIMATION OF OVER 1,000 CONTAINERS FULL AND PARTIALLY FULL, INCLUDING NUMEROUS 55-GAL CONTAINERS LABELED AS NICKEL WASTE, NO GOOD OR CHROME WASTE. CONAINTERS STORED AT THE FACILITY ALSO INCLUDED BOTTLES AND JARS OF USED LAB CHEMICALS AND QA/QA SAMPLES THAT WERE COVERED IN DUST AND DEGRADING, AND SOME OF WHICH WERE STORED IN CARDBOARD BOXES DATING BACK TO 1994. RESPONDENT HAD NOT COMPLETED A HAZ WASTE DETERMINATION ON ANY OF THESE WASTES GENERATED AND STORED ONSITE.
INSPECTORS OBSERVED NUMEROUS CONTAINERS OF HAZ WASTE EITHER UNLABELED OR MARKED WITH THE WORDS NO GOOD OR CHROME WASTE. NONE OF THE CONTAINERS WERE MARKED WITH THE WORDS HAZARDOUS WASTE.
INSPECTORS OBSERVED OPEN CONTAINERS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE THAT WERE LEAKING, DISSOLVING AND/OR RUSTING.
INSPECTORS OBSERVED CONTAINERS OF HAZ WASTE STORED ON PALLETS (4 TO A PALLET), STACKED 3 TO 5 PALLETS H