# WESTERN COMPLIANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1998 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `51043`
- **Case Number:** 08-1998-0141
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $435
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- WESTERN COMPLIANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SVCS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

WESTERN COMPLIANCE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES WAS INVOLVED IN    THE RENOVATION OF FALLON MEDICAL CENTER, 103 HOSPITAL BLVD., BAKER, MONTANA.  DURING THE RRENOVATION, WCES GENERATED      ASBESTOS-CONTAINING WASTE MATERIALS (ACWM). AN INSPECTION    AT THE MEDICAL CENTER ON OCTOBER 14, 1997 REVEALED THAT      FRIABLE ACWM HAD NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY WETTED, 14 OF 17 BAGS   HAD TEARS IN THEM, NO GENERATOR LABELS WERE PRESENT ON ANY   OF THE BAGS AND THE LANDFILL WAS NOT OPERATED IN ACCORDANCE  WITH REGULATIONS AND THE WASTE SHIPMENT RECORD HAD NOT BEEN  SIGNED BY THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF THE LANDFILL.

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