On December 6, 2018, Region III entered into a Consent Agreement with, and issued a Final Order to, Azko Nobel Coatings, Inc., settling violations of RCRA Subtitle C that EPA inspectors observed during an inspection of the company's facility in Roanoke, Virginia (Facility). The settlement will ensure that, in the future, the company will properly contain and manage hazardous waste at the Facility. At the Facility, the company manufactures paints and coatings. Because this process generates a waste coatings and waste paint, the Facility is required to comply with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the federally-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 of the Facility, and through subsequent communications, the EPA inspectors observed that the company: (1) operated a hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility without a permit or interim status; (2) failed to make a timely waste determination on off-spec and returned products, (3) failed to keep hazardous waste containers closed except as necessary to add or remove waste; (4) failed to file an exception report after not receiving a signed manifest from the destination facility within 45 days of the date the waste was received by the transporter, (5) failed to keep containers of universal waste lamps closed, and (6) failed to prop