RCRA facility News
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BP to pay $426,500 penalty and secure funds to properly close facilities and clean up contaminated sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that several subsidiaries of BP America Inc. have agreed to pay a $426,500 penalty and ensure that more than $240 million in funds are secured to resolve violations of hazardous waste, drinking water and Superfund financial assurance requirements. Financial assurance protects public health and the environment by ensuring that ...
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EPA Settlement with Baltimore Companies Helps Provide Safe Handling of Hazardous Waste
American Plating Service, Inc. and Monument Street Properties LLC have agreed to pay a $5,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste storage regulations at a commercial metal plating and finishing facility in Baltimore, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. In a separate agreement with EPA, the companies further agreed to conduct a facility investigation ...
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EPA Settles With Anchorage Companies for Hazardous Waste Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with UIC Roofing and UIC Construction in Anchorage, Alaska for alleged mishandling of hazardous waste in violation of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). “Improperly managing hazardous waste puts people and our environment at risk from exposure to harmful substances,” said Ed Kowalski, Director of EPA’s ...
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EPA order requires companies to investigate environmental contamination at frontier el dorado refinery in El Dorado, Kan.
EPA Region 7 has reached an administrative settlement with the current owner-operator and a historical owner of the Frontier El Dorado oil refinery at El Dorado, Kan., requiring the companies to take a series of actions to investigate environmental contamination at the property. Frontier El Dorado Refining LLC (Frontier), which owns and operates the facility; and Equilon Enterprises LLC, doing ...
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EPA Inspections Reveal Hazardous Waste Violations at University of Missouri-Kansas City Campus
EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections of the University of Missouri-Kansas City's (UMKC) Volker Campus and Dental School in Kansas City, Mo., revealed violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous waste. In a settlement filed recently by EPA in Lenexa, Kan., the university will pay a $32,679 civil penalty to the United ...
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EBV Explosives Environmental Company to Pay $580,135 Penalty for Air, Hazardous Waste Violations at Carthage, Mo.
EBV Explosives Environmental Company, doing business as General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems - Munitions Services, has agreed to pay a $580,135 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at its facility in Carthage, Mo. In February 2011, EBV sent a letter to EPA that informed the Agency that stack tests conducted in ...
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EnergySolutions Teams With Environmental Dimensions Inc. for $200M Waste Operations Contract
EnergySolutions (NYSE: ES) today announced that the partnership it has formed with Environmental Dimensions Inc. has been awarded a $200M contract for Waste Characterization, Processing and Waste Operations Services for the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The scope of work includes all aspects of radioactive and hazardous waste management ...
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EPA Inspections reveal hazardous waste violations at ABC Labs of Columbia, Mo.
EPA Region 7 conducted Compliance Evaluation Inspections at Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories Inc.’s (ABC Labs’) two facilities in Columbia, Mo., in April 2012. The inspections revealed violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous waste at each facility. The company has agreed to pay a $19,040 civil penalty to ...
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Albaugh, Inc., to pay $64,804 civil penalty for hazardous waste, risk management program violations at st. Joseph, mo.
Albaugh, Inc., of Ankeny, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $64,804 civil penalty to the United States for a series of hazardous waste and chemical Risk Management Program violations at its manufacturing facility in St. Joseph, Mo. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., the Agency inspected Albaugh’s St. Joseph facility in April 2010 to ...
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Sivyer steel corporation of Bettendorf, Iowa, to Pay $54,786 penalty, perform oil cleanup for hazardous waste violations
Sivyer Steel Corporation of Bettendorf, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $54,786 civil penalty and clean up residual used oil that may have leaked from its storage tanks, as part of a settlement with EPA Region 7 for violations of federal hazardous waste regulations at its facility. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA in Kansas City, Kan., the Agency inspected Sivyer ...
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Behlen Manufacturing Company to Pay $59,996 Civil Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in Columbus, Neb.
Behlen Manufacturing Company, an agricultural and industrial product manufacturer, has agreed to pay a $59,996 administrative civil penalty to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Columbus, Neb. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $75,578 to install pollution reducing equipment as part of a supplemental ...
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U.S. EPA settles with East Bay MUD over hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) for improper management of hazardous waste at its Oakland wastewater treatment plant. The public utility agreed to pay a $99,900 penalty. EPA conducted a site inspection at EBMUD wastewater treatment plant in 2014 under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and ...
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Brand FX body of Pocahontas, Iowa, to replace use of solvent and pay $11,021 penalty for hazardous waste violations
SNF, Inc., doing business as the Brand FX Body Company, of Pocahontas, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $11,021 civil penalty to the United States, and spend an additional $61,715 on a supplemental environmental project, to settle a series of violations of federal hazardous waste regulations. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., Brand FX’s ...
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EPA and SEPTA settle hazardous waste violations
The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) have settled alleged violations of hazardous waste and underground storage tank regulations at nine SEPTA facilities. In addition to a $169,527 civil penalty, SEPTA has agreed to spend $1.1 million on a project that will provide significant environmental and public health benefits. SEPTA ...
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Electro-Coatings of Iowa, Inc., to Pay $19,171 Civil Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Electro-Coatings of Iowa, Inc., a chrome, nickel, and zinc plating operation, has agreed to pay a $19,171 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $110,000 to install technology that will reduce the amount of hazardous chrome ...
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EPA Inspections Reveal Hazardous Waste Violations at GKN Armstrong Wheels in Estherville and Armstrong, Iowa
EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections at two GKN Armstrong Wheels, Inc., facilities in Iowa revealed violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous waste at each facility. In a settlement filed recently in Lenexa, Kan., the company agreed to pay a $150,031 civil penalty to the United States. Independent inspections at the ...
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Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., to pay $118,800 penalty for hazardous waste violations at Kaiser, Mo., Facility
Waste Management LampTracker, Inc., has agreed to pay a $118,800 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of violations of its Missouri Hazardous Waste Permit and the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at its permitted Kaiser, Mo., facility and a nearby unpermitted materials staging area. Waste Management LampTracker, which collects and recycles universal waste ...
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EPA orders US Magnesium to address acid spill near Rowley, Utah facility
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Magnesium LLC (USM) voluntarily entered into an Administrative Order on Consent (AOC). The AOC provides that USM address a release of acidic liquid waste from the magnesium production facility onto its own and adjacent U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property. On January 23, 2014, USM reported to the EPA National Response Center a ...
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Southern wood piedmont company settles financial assurance claims
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Southern Wood Piedmont Company and its parent company, Rayonier Inc., have agreed to pay a $317,000 penalty to resolve violations of hazardous waste financial assurance requirements and have obtained more than $41.7 million in financial assurance. Financial assurance protects public health and the environment by ensuring that financial ...
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EPA extends public comment period on proposed remedies for radford army ammunition plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period until Aug. 31 on the proposed remedies for cleaning up the Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP). The public comment period, which opened May 25, was originally scheduled to close July 25. But residents requested additional time to comment on the proposed remedies that are outlined in the Corrective Action Statement ...
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