# OIL BARGES, INC., A LOUISIANA CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `38018`
- **Case Number:** 06-1998-0324
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $31K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $30K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- OIL BARGES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008 OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY       ACT ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6928.                     2. OIL BARGES, INC., A LOUISIANA CORPORATION                    5310 CORNELIUSP. VOORHIES ROAD                               NEW IBERIA, IBERIA PARISH, LOUISIANA 70560                3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY 1)      FAILURE TO MEET THE EXEMPTION REQUIREMENTS OF 90 DAYS OR     LESS HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE FOR GENERATORS, 2) FAILURE      TO NOTIFY OF HAZARDOUS WASTE ACTIVITY AND OBTAIN AN EPA      IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, AND 3) FAILURE TO LABEL USED OIL      CONTAINERS.                                               4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008 OF RCRA, EPA PRO-     POSES A CIVIL PENALTY OF $30,910 AND ISSUED A COMPLIANCE     ORDER TO THE RESPONDENT. THE ORDER REQUIRES THE RESPOND-     ENT TO: A) UPON RECEIPT OF COMPLAINT, TAKE THE NECESSARY     STEPS TO ENSURE EACH CONTAINER OF HAZ. WASTE HAS ON AND      VISIBLE FOR INSPECTION, DATE EACH PERIOD OF ACCUMULATION     BEGINS, AND LABELED OR CLEARLY MARKED WITH  HAZARDOUS        WASTE ; B) UPON RECEIPT OF COMPLAINT, TAKE THE NECESSARY     STEPS TO ENSURE EACH CONTAINER USED TO STORE HAZ. WASTE      IS MADE OF OR LINED WITH MATERIALS WHICH WILL NOT REACT      WITH, OR BE INCOMPATIBLE WITH, THE HAZ. WASTE BEING          STORED; C) UPON RECEIPT OF COMPLAINT, TAKE THE NECESSARY     STEPS TO ENSURE THAT CONTAINERS CONTAINING HAZ. WASTE ARE    KEPT CLOSED DURING STORAGE, EXCEP

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