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BLUE RIDGE WOOD PRODUCTS, LLC

Administrative - Formal · FY2020 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3602187814

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Case Number
03-2020-0106
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On April 30, 2020, Region III entered into a Consent Agreement with, and issued a Final Order to, Blue Ridge Wood Products, LLC, settling violations of RCRA Subtitles C and W that EPA inspectors observed during an inspection of the company's facility in Fairless Hills, PA (Facility). The settlement will ensure that, in the future, the company will properly inspect and maintain the wood treatment drip pad at the Facility. At the Facility, the company pressure treats wood. Because Respondent's predecessors treated wood at the Facility with copper chromated arsenic ( CCA ), and Respondent did not close the cylinders or drip pad in accordance 40 C.F.R. Part 264, Subpart W after the Facility discontinued using CCA, Respondent continues to manage the waste collected from the drip pad as F035 hazardous waste, and the drip pad is subject to the applicable drip pad requirements in 40 C.F.R. Part 264, Subpart W of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the federally-authorized Pennsylvania 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 without a permit or interim status; (2) failed to retain TSD-signed copies of manifests or submit exception reports; (3) failed to main

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