# INNOSPEC ACTIVE CHEMICALS, LLC,
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2020 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602279293`
- **Case Number:** 04-2020-2106
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- INNOSPEC ACTIVE CHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

8/13/20 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER - At the time of the June 21, 2019 inspection.Respondent was generating a spent methanol and isopropyl alcohol (IPA) solvent waste mixture as a result of cleaning process tanks used to manufacture calcium and sodium docusates at its facility. The spent methanol and IPA solvent mixture has a flashpoint of less than 140 degrees Fahrenheit and 
is a D001 characteristic and  F003 listed hazardous waste.Respondent  had not determined  that the spent methanol and IPA solvent mixture was a D001  characteristic and F003 listed hazardous waste and had not determined whether the waste met the LDR treatment standards. Respondent  was sending the spent methanol and IPA solvent mixture off-site without a hazardous waste manifest or a land disposal restriction notice. The spent methanol and  IPA solvent waste mixture had been sent off-site without a hazardous waste manifest or accompanying  land disposal restriction  notice on thirty separate occasions beginning on January  16, 2015. At the time of the August 6, 2019 CEI, a 275 gallon container was observed  within an SAA located  in the  immediate vicinity of the process tanks that were cleaned  with methanol  between production  batches of sodium and calcium docusate. The 275-gallon  container was collecting spent methanol and IPA hazardous waste. The container was labeled with the words  Hazardous Waste  and marked with  an accumulation  start date of less than three days from the time of the

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