# SOLV-EX CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1996 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `36707`
- **Case Number:** 06-1996-0420
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $15K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $21K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- SOLV-EX CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6901 ET SEQ.              2. SOLV-EX CORPORATION                                          2121 MENUAL BLVD.                                            ALBUQUERQUE, BERNALILLO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO 87102          3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY 1)      STORING OF HAZARDOUS WASTE WITHOUT A PERMIT OR INTERIM       STATUS, AND 2) FAILING TO MAKE A WASTE DETERMINATION OF      THE DRUMMED MATERIAL LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST STORAGE        YARD.                                                     3. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       ISSUED A COMPLIANCE ORDER REQUIRING THAT WITHIN 30 DAYS      AFTER RECEIPT OF THE ORDER, 1) CERTIFY  THAT A WASTE DE-     TERMINATION WAS MADE OF THE DRUMMED MATERIAL IN STORAGE      AND PROPERLY DISPOSED OF AND 2) INFORM EPA AND NMED OF       ITS CURRENT HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT STATUS WITH A RE-     PORT AND A RCRA GENERATOR NOTIFICATION FORM; CERTIFY ALL     WASTES GENERATED AND/OR STORED FOR LES THAN 90 DAYS WILL     BE PROPERLY CHARACTERIZED; AND WITHIN 45 DAYS OF ISSUANCE    OF THE COMPLAINT, SUBMIT TO EPA DOCUMENTATION OF HAZARD-     OUS WASTE DETERMINATION AND WASTE DISPOSAL. EPA PROPOSES     A CIVIL PENALTY OF $60,237.

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