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LORD CORPORATION

Administrative - Formal · FY2018 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3601302166

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2018-0013
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On December 19, 2017, the Regional Judicial Officer signed a Final Order ratifying a Consent Agreement between EPA and Lord Corporation I (Lord), located in Saegertown, Pennsylvania. The Consent Agreement resolves alleged violations of RCRA C identified during an August 16, 2016 EPA inspection of the Saegertown facility. RCRA is designed to protect human health and the environment by requiring the safe management of hazardous waste. The alleged violations include operating a hazardous waste storage facility without a permit, failure to properly manage containers of hazardous waste, failure to maintain a container of hazardous waste in good condition or transfer its contents to a container in good condition, inadequate secondary containment for hazardous waste storage tanks, failure to maintain a complete Contingency Plan, failure to determine whether equipment contains or contacts a hazardous waste with 10% or more organic concentration, failure to perform monthly monitoring of pumps and valves subject to 40 C.F.R. 264 Part BB, failure to repair a leaking pump and connectors within 15 days of detection, and failure to properly manage universal waste.Lord Corporation will pay a $117,320 civil penalty. Lord Corporation previously settled EPA allegations it violated RCRA C regulations in a 2009 Consent Agreement and Final Order. The state was informed of this action and did not object.

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