# HERITAGE-WTI
> **Judicial** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600391239`
- **Case Number:** 05-2015-5085
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- HERITAGE-WTI (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

The Consent Decree requires Heritage to complete the following injunctive relief: 
 
1.	Revised MACT Investigations
Heritage must undertake a revised MACT investigation (RMI) of all ?MACT Exceedances? defined as any exceedance of the Total Hydrocarbon (THC) emission limit or non-compliance with an Operating Parameter Limit (OPL).  In the RMI, Heritage is required to determine the cause of the non-compliance and corrective measures that could address it, and to implement any corrective measures that are ?reasonable under the circumstances.? The Consent Decree also requires Heritage to collect and retain specific data regarding incinerator operations that it will use in conducting RMIs. 
2.	Waste Stream Acceptance Procedures
After the July 2013 explosion, in March of 2014, Heritage stopped incinerating any refinery waste with more than 0.124% lanthanum as a measure to avoid future explosions. The Consent Decree requires Heritage to analyze all refinery waste that has the potential to contain lanthanum and either reject such refinery waste or to send such wastes to another processing facility.
3.	Investigations and Studies
The Consent Decree requires Heritage to undertake an investigation to reduce the occurrence of Clinker Fall Events which cause Secondary Combustion Chamber (SCC) deviations.  Heritage hired a refractory expert who determined that ?fluxing? elements (including potassium, lithium, sodium and iron) could lower the melting point of slag and cause less slag 

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