# THE VALSPAR CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `37836`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0139
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $30K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $7K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- THE VALSPAR CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6928(A).                  2. THE VALSPAR CORPORATION, A DELAWARE CORPORATION              1700 DOUCETTE STREET                                         BEAUMONT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS 77704                   3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 3005(A) OF RCRA BY    1) FAILING TO MAKE A HAZARDOUS WASTE DETERMINATION, AND      2) OPERATING A HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE UNIT WITHOUT IN-      TERIM STATUS OR PERMIT BY FAILING TO MEET THE EXEMPTION      REQUIREMENTS, AND 3)                                      4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $27,500 AND ISSUED A COMPLI-     ANCE ORDER TO THE RESPONDENT. THE ORDER REQUIRES THE RE-     SPONDENT TO: 1) IMMEDIATELY CEASE THE AUTHORIZED STORAGE     OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, 2) NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS AFTER EFFEC-    TIVE DATE OF THE COMPLIANCE ORDER, REMOVE, TRANSPORT AND     DISPOSE OF THE HAZ. WASTE DISCOVERED AT THE BEAUMONT FA-     CILITY BY EPA REPS, 3) NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS OF THE ORDER    SUBMIT TO EPA AND TRNCC A PLAN DOCUMENTING 1) THAT ALL       HAZ. WASTE IN CONTAINERS WILL BE ACCUMULATED ON-SITE FOR     90-DAY OR LESS WITHOUT A PERIT OR INTERIM STATUS AND 2)      THAT THE WASTE PLACED IN CONTAINERS COMPLIES WITH REGULA-    TIONS, 4) NO LATER THAN 30 DAYS OF THE ORDER, PROVIDE        DOCUMENTATION TO EPA AND TRNCC THAT THE BEAUMONT FACILITY    HAS DEVELOPED A WRITTEN SCHEDULE 

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