# PHILIP RECLAMATION SERVICES, A TEXAS CORPORATION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `39534`
- **Case Number:** 06-1999-0870
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $66K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PHILIP SERVICES CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

1. SECTION 3008(A) OF THE RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY    ACT OF 1976 ( RCRA ), 42 U.S.C. SECTION 6928(A), AS A-       MENDED BY THE HAZARDOUS AND SOLID WASTE AMENDMENTS OF        1984 (HSWA).                                              2. PHILIP SERVICES CORPORATION, A TEXAS CORPORATION             4050 HOMESTEAD ROAD                                          HOUSTON, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS 77028                       3. RESPONDENT WAS IN VIOLATION OF SUBTITLE C OF RCRA BY: 1)     FAILURE TO PLACE THE DATE EACH PERIOD OF ACCUMULATION BE-    GINS ON CONTAINERS STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE; 2) FAILURE TO    MANAGE CONTAINERS STORING IGNITABLE WASTE AT LEAST 50'       FROM THE PROPERTY LINE; 3) FAILURE TO MANAGE CONTAINERS      STORING INCOMPATIBLE WASTE SEPARATED BY A PROTECTIVE DE-     VICE; AND 4) FAILING TO BEGIN OPERATION OF CONTROL EQUIP-    MENT BY THE DEADLINE REQUIRED.                            4. RELIEF SOUGHT PURSUANT TO SECTION 3008(A) OF RCRA, EPA       PROPOSED A CIVIL PENALTY OF $283,910 FOR THE VIOLATIONS      CITED. EPA ISSUED THE RESPONDENT A COMPLIANCE ORDER TO       CORRECT THE VIOLATIONS.

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