# RELIANCE TREATED WOOD, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601012893`
- **Case Number:** 03-2017-0116
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- RELIANCE TREATED WOOD, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On April 20, 2017, Region III entered into a Consent Agreement with, and issued a Final Order to Reliance Treated Wood, Inc., settling violations of RCRA Subtitle C at the company's facility in Federalsburg, Maryland ( Facility ).  The settlement will prevent future migration of wood treating chemicals to soil. Reliance treats lumber at the Facility.  Because the Facility generates hazardous waste in the form of wood preservative drippage containing chromated copper arsenate, Reliance is required to comply with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the federal hazardous waste regulations; and the authorized Maryland Hazardous Waste Management regulations.  RCRA is designed to protect human health and the environment by providing for the safe management of such hazardous wastes. 

During the inspection, and through subsequent communications, the EPA Inspector learned that Reliance: (1) operated a hazardous waste storage facility without a permit or interim status; (2) failed to obtain and keep on file an annual written assessment of its drip pad; (3) failed to maintain its drip pad; (4) failed to maintain an adequate contingency plan for the Facility; (5) failed to maintain personnel records; and (6) failed to make a waste determination on waste lamps, and failed to store them properly.  The Company has agreed to pay a penalty of $69,000 to settle this enforcement action.  The Company has also put in place an arrangement for annual assessment of the drip pad.  T

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