Aura manufactures skin products and aromatherapy products by purchasing essential oils in bulk, adding fragrances to the oils, and bottling finished products into smaller containers on the south side of Urbana, Iowa, since 1993. The facility currently employs approximately 30 full time personnel. When fragrance changes are needed, the facility conducts a cleaning process that generates water/oil and waste ethanol hazardous streams that are collected separately and are managed as hazardous waste.
During the inspection, the EPA found that the facility failed to properly label a container in satellite accumulation, failed to maintain a written description of the type and amount of both introductory and continuing training, and failed to dispose of hazardous waste within 90-days of the beginning date of storage.
(b) Sensitive Comments not for Public Distribution:
The specific three violations are:
1. 40 CFR 262.15(a)(5) requires a generator must mark or label its container with the words ?Hazardous Waste? and an indication of the hazards of the contents.
As a result of review of the inspection report, it was determined that the facility did not label one container of approximately 15 gallons of hazardous waste stored in a Satellite accumulation container with the words ?Hazardous Waste,? nor provide an indication of the nature of the hazard.
During the CEI, employees of Aura affixed labeling with the words ?Hazardous Waste? and indication of the nature of the hazard to the