# BJ SERVICES COMPANY, U.S.A.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36414`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0110
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $3K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $89K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- BJ SERVICES COMPANY, U.S.A. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. 6901 ET SEQ.                      2. BJ SERVICES COMPANY, U.S.A.                                  2708 WEST COUNTY ROAD                                        HOBBS, LEA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO                             3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY         STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THE SAND TRAP TANK, THE SEPA-     RATION TANKS, AND THE  EMPTY DRUM  STORAGE AREA WITHOUT A    PERMIT, AND BY FAILING TO MAKE A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMI-    NATION OF THE MATERIAL LOCATED IN THE THREE SEPARATION       TANKS AND THE DRUMS IN THE EMPTY DRUM STORAGE AREA.       4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $85,774 AND A COMPLIANCE OR-     DER. THE ORDER REQUIRES THE RESPONDENT TO:                   1. NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE COMPLAINT,      CERTIFY TO EPA AND NMED THAT A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMI-      NATION HAS BEEN MADE OF THE WASTE MATERIAL BEING STORED      IN THE SAND TANK TRAP, THE SEPARATION TANKS, AND THE         EMPTY DRUM STORAGE AREA AND HAS BEEN DISPOSED OF AC-         CORDING TO REGULATIONS,                                    2. NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER THE RECEIPT OF THE COM-        PLAINT, THE RESPONDENT SHALL CERTIFY ALL TANKS THAT ARE      STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE OR WILL STORE HAZARDOUS WASTE        FOR LESS THAN 90 OR 180 DAYS AS APPLICABLE AS MEETING        REQUIREMENTS,                  

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