# Whole Foods Company, Inc.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600820161`
- **Case Number:** 06-2016-0906
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Whole Foods Company, Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On August 26, 2014, NMED referred a matter to the EPA, Region 6 for further investigation and enforcement.  After several discussions with NMED, EPA Region 6 began its own investigation of Whole Foods, which ran the period of August 2014 through August 2015.  During this period, EPA conducted a RCRA investigation and record review of Whole Foods? activities as a generator of hazardous waste in Region 6, issued an RCRA information request dated August 18, 2015, and on November 24, 2015, Whole Foods provided EPA with a response to the RCRA 3007 information request.  The summation of the investigation by Region 6 formed the predicate for this enforcement action.
The settlement is structured in five (5) CAFOs, each reflecting respective locations in each Region 6 state.  The settlement addresses two (2) main RCRA violations at several facilities across the five states in Region 6, which are failure to: (1) make adequate hazardous waste determinations on several waste streams; and (2) comply with the universal waste requirements.  The facility is required to pay a penalty of $509,850 and to establish compliance with the regulation.

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