Respondent failed to make hazardous waste determinations on four distinct types of wastestreams: old, abandoned, obsolete, expired, potentially explosive, and unidentifiable chemicals, including gas cylinders and unknown lab wastes; laboratory wastewaters; spent fluorescent bulbs and spent computer monitors.
Respondent failed to comply with conditions for accumulating hazardous waste without a permit and thus did not qualify for the exemption from the permit requirement. Respondent failed to comply with numerous management standards that relate to the labeling of storage containers, satellite accumulation requirements, and inspections, among other things.
Respondent failed to ensure that all of its facility personnel responsible for hazardous waste management had received training within six months of employment and/or annual reviews to perform their duties in a way that ensures the facility�s compliance with hazardous waste management regulations and implementation of emergency procedures.
Respondent failed to have contingency plan and to submit a Hazardous Waste Contingency Plan to all local police departments, fire departments, hospitals, and state and local emergency response teams.
Respondent failed to keep containers of hazardous waste closed.
Respondent failed to operate the facility to minimize the possibility of a fire, explosion, or any unplanned sudden or non-sudden release of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents to the air, soil or surface w