# UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2024 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604008561`
- **Case Number:** 03-2024-0025
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On June 7, 2024 EPA Region 3 filed a Consent Agreement and Final Order, simultaneously commencing and concluding an administrative action proceeding against the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences. ( USUHS ) located at 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814 ( Facilit ) for alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ) and the authorized Code of Maryland Regulations ( COMAR ) discovered after a tip/complaint prompted an EPA inspection of the Facility on December 14-15, 2021. USUHS is a health science university and professional school of the U.S. federal government. The primary mission of the school is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home and abroad as uniformed health professionals, scientists and leaders; by conducting cutting-edge, military-relevant research; by leading the Military Health System in key functional and intellectual areas; and by providing operational support to units around the world. The violations in the settlement include operation without a hazardous waste permit, failure to make a hazardous waste determination, failure to annually train laboratory personnel, failure to maintain an adequate contingency plan for the Facility, failure to mark containers of satellite waste as hazardous waste, failure to label universal waste containers properly; and failure to describe hazardous waste duties in job description. Region 3 notified Maryland, which had no objections to this action.  Per the terms of

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