# CHIEF SUPPLY CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1997 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37192`
- **Case Number:** 06-1997-0362
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CHIEF SUPPLY CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 7003(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6973.                     2. CHIEF SUPPLY CORPORATION, A SUBSIDIARY OF CLEAN AMERICA      CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION.                         ROUTE 2 BOX 71                                               HASKELL, MUSKOGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74436                  3. ON MAR. 26, 1997, AN EXPLOSION AND FIRE OCCURRED AT THE      FACILITY. THE FIRE RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF ONE OF RE-       SPONDENT'S EMPLOYEES, AND INJURIES TO TWO OTHER EMPLOY-      EES. THE HANDLING, STORAGE, TREATMENT, OR TRANSPORTATION     SOLID WASTE OR HAZARDOUS WASTE AT THE FACILITY MAY HAVE      CREATED AN IMMINENT AND SUBSTANTIAL ENDANGERMENT TO          HEALTH OR THE ENVIRONMENT.                                   RESPONDENT HAS NOT MAINTAINED AND OPERATED THE FACILITY      TO MINIMIZE THE POSSIBILITY OF A FIRE, EXPLOSION, OR ANY     UNPLANNED SUDDEN OR NON-SUDDEN RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE    OR HAZARDOUS WASTE CONSTITUENTS TO AIR, SOIL, OR SURFACE     WATER WHICH COULD THREATEN HUMAN HEALTH OR THE ENVIRON-      MENT.                                                        THERE IS OR HAS BEEN A RELEASE OF HAZARDOUS WASTES, HAZ-     ARDOUS WASTE CONSTITUENTS, AND /OR SOLIDS INTO THE EN-       VIRONMENT FROM THE FACILITY.                                 RESPONDENT'S FAILURE TO MANAGE HAZARDOUS WASTE AND/OR        SOLID WASTE AND OPERATE THE FACILITY TO MINIMIZE THE POS-    SIBILTY OF A FIRE, AND THE SUBSEQ

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