JANUARY 6, 2021 - CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER WITH A ZERO PENALTY ASSESSED:
On September 28, 2012, the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resource, now the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ), issued the Facility a hazardous waste operating permit, Permit No. NCD047368642-R2-M3 (RCRA Permit), last modified July 1, 2015, and effective until September 8, 2022.Pursuant to General Condition II.C of the RCRA Permit, Respondent is not permitted to accept shipments of hazardous waste from off-site sources. On December 19, 2018, the EPA sent a Notice of Temporary Objection to Chemours Netherlands B.V. Dordrecht (Chemours-Dordrecht) in response to Chemours-Dordrecht's request (EC Notice ID: NL608356; EPA Notice 020936/11I/18) to import spent fluorine containing surfactant waste from Chemours-Dordrecht to Respondent's Facility. A final Notice of Objection to this activity was issued by the Agency on January 6, 2020. In response to the EPA?s objection notice, on February 7, 2020, Respondent provided the EPA with additional information pertaining to shipments of spent fluorine containing surfactant waste received from off-site sources at the Facility, including property sheets for the off-site waste shipments received in FY2017 and FY2018. As identified in the following table, based on the information provided by Respondent on February 7, 2020, Respondent accepted shipments of spent fluorine containing surfactant waste that exhibited the c