# Desert Water Agency ESA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2026 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604671414`
- **Case Number:** 09-2026-5026
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- David Tate (settlement)
- Desert Water Agency (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Expedited Settlement Agreement for $11,250. EPA alleges that the Respondent violated the following requirements of the RCRA hazardous waste management programs:
a)	Failure to make a waste determination [40 CFR ? 262.11].
b)	Failure to meet the conditions for exemption for satellite accumulation; specifically, failure to accumulate hazardous waste in containers at or near the point of generation where wastes initially accumulate under the control of the operator of the process generating the waste [40 CFR ? 262.15(a)]. 
c)	Failure to meet the conditions for exemption for satellite accumulation; specifically, failure to mark or label a SAA hazardous waste container with the words ?Hazardous Waste? and indicate the hazards of the waste (e.g., using a NFPA flammable label to indicate waste is ignitable) [40 CFR ? 262.15(a)(5)].
d)	Failure to meet the conditions for exemption for a small quantity generator that accumulates hazardous waste; [40 CFR ? 262.16].
e)	Failure to minimize a release of hazardous waste constituents [40 CFR ?262.251].
f)	Failure of a small quantity handler of universal waste to label or mark the universal waste to identify the type of universal waste [40 CFR 40 CFR ? 273.14].
g)	Failure to meet universal waste accumulation time limits; [40 CFR ? 273.15]
h)	Failure of a small or large quantity generator to not treat, store, dispose of, transport, or offer for transportation, RCRA hazardous waste without having received an EPA identification number [40

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