# NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER, CRANE DIVISION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2018 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601583629`
- **Case Number:** 05-2018-9923
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- U.S.Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Region 5 filed a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) commencing and concluding an action against the U.S. Department of the Navy (Navy) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division is a Navy division that operates a military engineering and technical support facility at 300 U.S. Highway 361, Crane, Indiana. Approximately 3,100 personnel are employed at the facility. Based on a 2016 inspection, EPA alleges that the Navy was storing wet carbon filter materials and carbon filter bags contaminated with D006 and D007 hazardous wastes on the concrete floor of a plating operation for de-watering and discharge into the facility?s wastewater collection system. The wastes were not stored in containers or tanks, on drip pads, or in a containment building, as required by 40 C.F.R. ? 262.34(a)(1) (2016). The Navy has agreed to implement a Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) and pay $2,072 in cash penalty. A continuous pH monitoring system will be installed in the wastewater collection system to provide early warning of excessive corrosivity and allow facility personnel to take action to protect the wastewater treatment process. The SEP cost is estimated to be $28,400. The carbon filter hazardous wastes were characteristic for toxicity and therefore regulated under RCRA. The alleged violation caused worker and human exposure to un-containerized hazardous waste, which the RCRA regulation is intended to prevent. The facil

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