# MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. (MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. - ELKTON FACILITY)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2023 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603637088`
- **Case Number:** 03-2023-0098
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On June 28, 2023, EPA Region III filed an Expedited Settlement Agreement and Final Order, simultaneously commencing and concluding an administrative action proceeding against Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. ( Merc ) located at 2778 South East Side Highway, Elkton, VA ( Facility ) for alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ) and the authorized Commonwealth of Virginia Hazardous Waste Management Program discovered during EPA's compliance evaluation inspection of the Facility on September 27 - 29, 2022. RCRA gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from the  cradle-to-grave.  This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste. To that end, EPA develops regulations, guidance and policies that ensure the safe management and cleanup of solid and hazardous waste, and programs that encourage source reduction and beneficial reuse.  Merck is a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility for vaccines and biologics.  Hazardous waste is generated through its pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.  The violations in the settlement include operation without a hazardous waste permit, failure to make a waste determination at the point of generation, failure to conduct/document daily inspections of a hazardous waste tank, failure to submit the 2019 biennial report before March 1, 2020, and a failure to have an adequate contingency plan.  Region 3 notified VADEQ, which had no objections to this action.  Per the terms 

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