# ENVIRO-CHEM, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36407`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0103
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $911
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $46K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ENVIRO-CHEM, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET SEQ.              2. ENVIRO-CHEM, INC.                                            821 1/2 WEST MARYLAND                                        HOBBS, LEA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 88240                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY         STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT A PERMIT OR INTERIM STAT-    US AND FOR FAILING TO ADEQUATELY MAKE HAZARDOUS WASTE DE-    TERMINATIONOF MATERIAL LOCATED IN THE SHOP SUMP AND THE      WASTE TOTE TANK.                                          4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $10,911 AND HAS ISSUED A COM-    PLIANCE ORDER REQUIRING THE RESPONDENT TO: 1) NOT LATER      THAN 30 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE COMPLAINT, THE RESPOND-    ENT SHALL CERTIFY THAT A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMINATION OF    THE WASTE MATERIAL LOCATED IN SHOP SUMP, THE WASTE TOTE      TANK, AND ANY OTHER HAZARDOUS WASTE BEING GENERATED. HAS     BEEN MADE IN ACCORDANCE TO REGULATIONS, AND 2) NOT MORE      THAN 30 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE COMPLAINT, RESPONDENT      SHALL CERTIFY THAT ALL HAZARDOUS WASTE LOCATED IN THE        SHOP SUMP, WASTE TOTE TANK, AND ALL OTHER HAZARDOUS WASTE    GENERATED BY THE RESPONDENT HAS BEEN DISPOSED PURSUANT TO    SUBTITLE C OF RCRA, AND 3) NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER      RECEIPT OF THE COMPLAINT, THE RESPONDENT SHALL CERTIFY       THAT ALL HAZARDOUS WASTE OBSERVED

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