# ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36166`
- **Case Number:** 06-1995-0297
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $4.00M
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(H) OF THE SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL ACT, AS A-       MENDED BY THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT,        ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SEC. 6928(H).                         2. ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE                                         ALTUS, OKLAHOMA                                           3. RESPONDENT HAS VIOLATED THE REGULATIONS OF SECTION 3008      (H) OF RCRA BY THE RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE OR HAZARD-     OUS CONSTITUENTS FROM ITS FACILITY WHICH HAVE CONTAMINAT-    ED SOIL AND GROUNDWATER IN AMOUNTS ABOVE THE MAXIMUM CON-    TAMINANT LEVEL (MCL).                                     4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(H) OF RCRA, EPA IS    ISSUING A UNILATERAL RCRA SECTION 3008(H) ADMINISTRATIVE     CORRECTIVE ACTION ORDER REQUIRING THE RESPONDENT TO: 1)      IDENTIFY, INVESTIGATE, AND PREVENT THE FURTHER SPREAD OF     RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS WASTES AND/OR HAZARDOUS CONSTITU-      ENTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT, AND TO ENSURE THAT CORRECTIVE       ACTION ACTIVITIES DEEMED NECESSARY BY EPA BE DESIGNED AND    IMPLEMENTED TO PROTECT HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT,     2) PERFORM INTERIM MEASURES (IM) AT THE FACILITY TO PRE-     VENT OR MINIMIZE THE FURTHER MIGRATION OF CONTAMINANTS       DUE TO RELEASES OF HAZARDOUS CONSTITUENTS TO THE ENVIRON-    MENT, OR TO MITIGATE CURRENT OR POTENTIAL THREATS TO HU-     MAN HEALTH OR THE ENVIRONMENT, 3) PERFORM A RCRA FACILITY    INVESTIGATION (RFI) TO FULLY DETERMINE THE NATURE AND EX-    TENT OF ANY RELEASE(S) OF HAZARDO

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