# Heritage Crystal Clean (NC)
> **Judicial** · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3601990786`
- **Case Number:** 05-2019-9912
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Heritage Crystal Clean (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On 05/16/2024 a Consent Decree resolving alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at the Heritage-Crystal Clean, LLC (HCC) facility at 3970 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana (the 10th Street Facility) and HCC facilities located in Regions 3 4, 6, and 8. EPA Region 5 referred RCRA allegations to DOJ for the 10th Street Facility on December 4, 2018, supplementing a Region 6 referral, and other Regions also referred allegations. On January 19, 2022, DOJ, along with the State of Indiana (Indiana) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), filed a civil Complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where HCC is headquartered. The proposed Consent Decree would resolve this multi-Regional RCRA matter without the filing of an Answer, full discovery, or litigation; recoup $1,112,500 RCRA violations, including $488,839 for the 10th Street Facility that EPA would split with Indiana, which also receives an additional $50,000 for a State-only Solid Waste Permit claim; require HCC to conduct screening of used solvents at four of its  distribution hubs and identify customers that may be sources of hazardous wastes; retain a Third-Party Auditor to check on HCC?s waste screening of used solvents; apply for a RCRA permit at the 10th Street Facility; and, in the interim, conduct frequent inspections and eliminate open venting of used 142 tanks at the 10th Street Facility. The 10th Street Facility is l

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