# NATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36560`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0261
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $8K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $10K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- NATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET SEQ., AS AMENDED. 2. NATIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.                         650 HAINES AVENUE N.W.                                       ALBUQUERQUE, BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87102          3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY 1)      STORING OF A HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT A PERMIT OR INTERIM     STATUS, 2) STORING OF A HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT THE AC-      CUMULATION START DATE, 3) FAILING TO KEEP A CONTAINER OF     HAZARDOUS WASTE CLOSED, 4) FAILING TO HAVE THE COMMUNI-      CATION EQUIPMENT, AND FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND ADEQUATE        AISLE SPACE IN THE HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE AREA, AND         FAILING TO ADEQUATELY CHARACTERIZE A WASTE AS A HAZARDOUS    WASTE.                                                    4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       ISSUED A COMPLIANCE ORDER AND A PROPOSED PENALTY OF          $30,000. THE COMPLIANCE ORDER REQUIRES THE RESPONDENT TO     NOT LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE COMPLAINT: A)    CERTIFY THAT ACCUMULATION START DATE IS CLEARLY MARKED ON    ALL DRUMS USED TO STORE HAZARDOUS WASTE, B) CERTIFY THAT     IT HAS PROVIDED COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, FIRE EXTINGUISH-    ERS, AND ADEQUATE AISLE SPACE IN THE HAZARDOUS WASTE         STORAGE AREA, C) CERTIFY THAT ALL WASTES GENERATED AND/OR    STORED LESS THAN 90 OR 180 DAYS WILL BE PROPERLY CHARAC-     TERIZED AS HAZARDOUS OR NOT, AND 

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