# TOX PATH SPECIALISTS, LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601734606`
- **Case Number:** 03-2019-0014
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- TOX PATH SPECIALISTS, LLC (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On December 26, 2018, EPA Region III filed a Consent Agreement and Final Order, simultaneously commencing and concluding an administrative action proceeding against Tox Path Specialists, LLC ( TPS ), of 8420 Gas House Pike, Frederick, MD 21701, for seven alleged violations of the authorized Code of Maryland Regulations ( COMAR ). TPS, a large quantity generator of hazardous and acute hazardous waste, is a laboratory specializing in neurohistology and neuropathology evaluations and consultations in addition to being a full-service histopathology provider. The violations in the Consent Agreement and Final Order included the following: I) owning and/or operating a hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility without a permit or interim status; 2) failure to make a hazardous waste determination; 3) failure to provide job descriptions relating to hazardous waste handling; 4) failure to provide adequate initial and annual training to personnel handling hazardous waste; and 5) failure to perform weekly inspections of the hazardous waste storage area; 6) failure to submit biennial reports; and 7) storage of hazardous waste for greater than 90-days. Per the terms of the Consent Agreement, Respondent will pay a civil penalty in the amount of $29,425.00.

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