# OPTIMA CHEMICAL GROUP LLC > **Administrative - Formal** · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty ## Case - **Activity ID:** `3602255472` - **Case Number:** 04-2019-4006 - **Type:** Administrative - Formal - **Lead:** EPA - **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty - **Penalty assessed:** — - **Cost recovery:** — - **Compliance action $:** — - **Multimedia (multi-env):** — ## Defendants - OPTIMA CHEMICAL GROUP LLC (complaint) (settlement) - Optima Chemical Group LLC ## Summary 7/28/20 - On June 25, 2018, the EPA and GAEPD conducted a RCRA compliance evaluation inspection (CEI) at Respondent's facility. The EPA's findings of the CE! were documented in a report mailed to Respondent, dated September 10, 2018. Respondent provided additional information to EPA regarding the CE! on July 13, 2018. Respondent, through its operations, generates 1,000 kilograms or greater of hazardous waste in a calendar month and therefore is an LQG of hazardous waste.During the June 25, 2018 RCRA CEI, the EPA inspector observed that the Respondent, through its operations, generates hazardous waste. This includes hazardous waste with the following EPA Hazardous Waste Numbers: DOOi, F003 and FOOS. During the June 25, 2018 RCRA CEI, the EPA inspector observed that the Respondent was storing nine (9) 250-gallon Level 2 containers next to the hazardous waste tanks. The hazardous waste in these containers was described and labeled as Flammable Liquid - High BTU and Flammable Liquid - Low BTU. The containers were not labeled or clearly marked with the words Hazardous Waste. Four (4) of the containers of hazardous waste were observed in the open position while waste was not being added or removed from the container and/or the person performing the unloading operation left the immediate vicinity of the container. Based on the additional information Respondent provided to the EPA on July 13, 2018, the Flammable Liquid - High BTU and Flammable Liquid - Low BTU wer --- *Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*