# GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING INC (SB)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2006 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600002943`
- **Case Number:** 05-2006-9915
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING INC (SB) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

U.S. EPA & GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING, INC. ENTER INTO A CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER 

On September 5, 2006, Region 5 and Great Lakes Engineering, Inc. (Great Lakes), Maple Grove, MN, entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) in resolution of violations that were detected as a result of a March 22, 2005, Compliance Evaluation Inspection.  The Complaint was filed simultaneously with the CAFO.  

The Combination Complaint and CAFO alleges that GLE failed to obtain a tank system design and installation assessment for a hazardous waste storage tank system; failed to respond to releases or spills of hazardous waste from its production equipment in a timely manner; failed to maintain its facility to minimize the possibility of fire, explosion, or the release of hazardous waste into the environment; failed to store hazardous waste in either tanks or containers; failed to keep a container of hazardous waste closed; and failed to properly label two containers of hazardous waste. 

In the CAFO, GLE has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $44,764.

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