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CWM Chemical Services, LLC

Administrative - Formal · FY2002 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 83886

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Cost recovery
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Case

Case Number
02-2002-9202
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

'1) Respondent disposed of three large boxes containing a total of 180 PCB Large Capacitors, which must be incinerated in an approved TSCA incinerator, in its TSCA authorized landfill on September 25, 2000. (2) Respondent did not properly identify the location into which the boxes were buried. (3) Respondent violated the PCB regulations by exporting one roll-off PCB waste to Canada and by not identifying PCB waste on the manifest. (4) Respondent disposed of a drum containing two PCB Large Capacitors in its'''''''''''''''' TSCA authorized landfill on May 23, 2000. The manifest from the generator miss-identified the contents of the drum. In the case of (1) and (4), respondent did not notify EPA within 15 days of discovery of the unresolved significant manifest discrepancies. In (1) and (4), discovery was a notification from the generator. *Case Conclusion Data Sheet (summary) Respondent recovered the three boxes containing 180 PCB Large Capacitors from the landfill at a cost of approximately $460,000, largly because they were not in fact located in the protion of the landfill recorded in Respondent''''s records. Respondent arranged for the shipment and incineration, at an approved incinerator, of the 180 PCB Large Capacitors at a cost of approximately $28,333. The shipment to Canada was recovered prior to this action and is currently stored at Respondent''''s Model City facility pending a land ban waver from EPA for disposal. Clarification and additional notific

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