# CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36394`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0090
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $18K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 30008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOV-     ERY ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET SEQ.          2. CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS, INC.                                  3911 MONROE ROAD                                             FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO 87401                              3. RESPONENT WAS INVIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY THE       STORING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT A PERMIT AND BY FAIL-     ING TO MAKE AN ACCURATE WASTE DETERMINATION OF THE DRUM-     MED MATERIAL IN THE WEST AND NORTHWEST DRUM STORAGE          AREAS. THE RESPONDENT ALSO VIOLATED SECTION 3010(A) OF       RCRA BY FAILING TO NOTIFY EPA OF THE RESPONDENT'S HAZARD-    OUS WASTE ACTIVITES.                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $17,566. EPA ALSO ISSUED A       COMPLIANCE ORDER REQUIRING THE RESPONDENT TO:                1) NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE           COMPLAINT, CERTIFY TO EPA AND NMED THAT A HAZARDOUS          WASTE DETERMINATION HAS BEEN MADE OF THE WASTE MATER-        IAL STORED IN THE FACILITY'S DRUM STORAGE AREA, AND          CERTIFICATION THAT THE WASTE MATERIAL HAS BEEN DIS-          POSED OF IN ACCORDANCE TO REGULATIONS, AND                2) NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE       COMPLAINT, RESPONDENT SHALL CERTIFY TO EPA AND NMED          THAT IT DOES OR DOES NOT GENERATE HAZARDOUS WASTE.

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