6/24/15 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $30,000, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS.
ALLEGATIONS:
ON OR ABOUT MAR 12, 2010, SAFETY-KLEEN, A PCB STORAGE AND DISPOSAL COMPANY, ARRANGED FOR ROBBIE D. WOOD, INC., A HAZ WASTE TRANSPORTER, TO COLLECT A TRANSPORT VEHICLE CONTAINING SOLID WASTE FROM SAFETY-KLEEN'S FACILITY IN DENTON, TX FOR TRANSPORT TO THE PECAN ROW LANDFILL IN VALDOSTA, GA. MISTAKENLY, SAFETY-KLEEN DELIVERED, AND ROBBIE D. WOOD ACCEPTED, A TRANSPORT VEHICLE CONTAINING RCRA AND PCB WASTE MEANT FOR DISPOSAL AT SAFETY-KLEEN'S FACILITY IN DEER PARK, TX. THE PCB WASTE CONTENT OF THE MAR 12, 2010, LOAD WAS COMPRISED OF MATERIALS REGULATED AS PCB CONTAINERS AND PCB BULK PRODUCT WASTE.
ACCORDING TO INFO OBTAINED BY EPA, ON OR ABOUT MAR 12, 2010, PECAN ROW LANDFILL ACCEPTED DELIVERY OF THE SAFETY-KLEEN LOAD. ROBBIE D. WOOD PRESENTED A MANIFEST PREPARED BY SAFETY-KLEEN TO THE LANDFILL THAT REPRESENTED THE MATERIAL TO BE NON-HAZARDOUS.
RESPONDENT ASSERTS THAT BEOLIA, THE PRIOR OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE LANDFILL, ADVISED RESPONDENT THAT VEOLIA DID NOT KNOW THAT THE LOAD OF WASTE DELIVERED BY ROBBIE D. WOOD TO THE LANDFILL FOR DISPOSAL ON MAR 12, 2010, INCLUDED PCB CONTAINERS AND PCB BULK PRODUCT WASTE. VEOLIA SOLIDIFIED PORTIONS OF THE LOAD, INCLUDING PCBs, IN STEEL SOLIDIFICATION BINS LOCATED INSIDE THE LANDFILL AND DISPOSED OF THE REMAINING PORTIONS OF THE LOAD INCLUDING PCBs, IN THE WORKING FACE AREA OF THE LANDFILL.
ON MAR 13, 2010, A SAFETY-KLE