# OCEAN TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37778`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0081
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $9K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OCEAN TECHNICAL SERVICES, 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. OCEAN TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC.                               1140 PETERS ROAD                                             HARVEY, JEFFERSON COUNTY, LOUISIANA 70058                 3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY 1)      STORAGE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE (IN CONTAINERS) WITHOUT A PER-    MIT, 2) STORAGE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE (AT SATELLITE ACCUMU-     LATION POINTS) WITHOUT A PERMIT, AND 3) FAILURE TO DEVE-     LOP AND MAINTAIN A SPILL PREVENTION CONTROL AND COUNTER-     MEASURES PLAN (SPCC).                                     4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $8,600 FOR THE VIOLATIONS        CITED AND ISSUED A COMPLIANCE ORDER TO THE RESPONDENT.       THE ORDER REQUIRES THE RESPONDENT TO IMMEDIATELY: 1) LA-     BEL ALL HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE CONTAINERS WITH  HAZARD-     OUS WASTE , 2) MARK ALL HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE CONTAIN-     ERS STORED IN THE CONTAINER STORAGE AREA WITH THE ACCUMU-    LATION START DATE, 3) KEEP ALL CONTAINERS CLOSED EXCEPT      WHEN ADDING OR REMOVING WASTE, 4) PROVIDE SECONDARY CON-     TAINMENT FOR THE CONTAINER STORAGE AREA, 5) OPERATE IN A     MANNER THAT WILL PREVENT RELEASE OF HAZ. WASTE TO THE EN-    VIRONMENT, 6) PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN EMERGENCY SPILL AND       FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT AT THE CONTAINER STORAGE AREA, 7)    BEGIN A PROGRAM TO ENSURE THAT AL

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