# ASSOCIATES ENGRAVING COMPANY > **Administrative - Formal** · FY2016 · — · — ## Case - **Activity ID:** `3600820337` - **Case Number:** 05-2016-9917 - **Type:** Administrative - Formal - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** — - **Penalty assessed:** — - **Cost recovery:** — - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** — ## Defendants - ASSOCIATES ENGRAVING COMPANY (complaint) (settlement) ## Summary Associates Engraving Company (�AE�) was a manufacturer of award plaques, trophies, and donor displays, employing approximately 45 workers at a facility located at 2601 Colt Road, Springfield, Illinois. AE no longer operates the business, having sold it to an unrelated company in June, 2015. AE�s production processes generated solvent and solvent-based paint hazardous wastes (D001 and F005), and chromium wastes (F006). AE allegedly violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (�RCRA�) by: (1) failing to mark two containers of hazardous waste with accumulation start dates in violation of 40 C.F.R. � 262.34(a)(2); (2) failing to label the same two containers with the words �Hazardous Waste� in violation of 40 C.F.R. � 262.34(a)(3); (3) storing hazardous waste in a less-than-90-day storage area for greater than 90 days in violation of 40 C.F.R. � 262.34(b); and (4) failing to provide hazardous waste training for employees as required by 40 C.F.R. � 265.16(a). AE thereby violated 40 C.F.R. Part 270 and Section 3005 of RCRA, 42 U.S.C. � 6925(a), by failing to meet all conditions for an exemption from a RCRA permit. AE will pay $25,524 to resolve the alleged violations. The facility is currently in compliance with RCRA under its current ownership. --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*