7/8/14 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $29,200, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS.
ALLEGATIONS:
ON SEPT 27, 2012, EPA AND FDEP PERFORMED A RCRA COMPLIANCE EVALUATION INSPECTION (CEI).
AT THE TIME OF THE CEI, RESPONDENT HAD 8 ASSEMPLY LINES AND EACH LINE HAD A 5-GAL SATELLITE ACCUMULATION AREA (SAA) BOX TO STORE REJECTED MATERIALS WHICH ARE HAZ WASTE. THE INSPECTION TEAM FOUND AN UNLABELED BOX STORING HAZ WASTE AT THE CELL DESIGNATOR IV. IN RESPONDENT'S BLDG 10, MILLED NITRO-GUANIDINE IS BLENDED WITH STRONTIUM NITRATE, POTASSIUM NITRATE AND CUPRIC OXIDE. THE WASTEWATER GENERATED FROM THIS PROCESS PASSES THRU A FILTER PRESS PLATE AND IS STORED IN 2 55-GAL SAA DRUMS. THE SLUDGE GENERATED IS K044 HAZ WASTE. ONE OF THE DRUMS WAS NOT LABELED. THE INSPECTION TEAM FOUND AN OPEN 7-GAL WHITE SAA CONTAINER STORING REJECTED INFLATORS, AN EXPLOSIVE HAZ WASTE (D003), AT THE CONTROLLED CONFORMANCE TESTING LAB. IN RESPONDENT'S BLDG 10, MILLED NITRO-GUANIDINE IS BLENDED WITH STRONTIUM NITRATE, POTASSIUM NITRATE AND CUPRIC OXIDE. THE WASTEWATER GENERATED FROM THIS PROCESS PASSES THRU A FILTER PRESS PLATE. THE SLUDGE IS K044 HAZ WASTE. THE K044 HAZ WASTE IS STORED IN 2 55-GAL DRUMS. BOTH DRUMS WERE OPEN. BLDG 10 HAS A WET SCRUBBER TO REMOVE AIR EXPLOSIVE PARTICLES. THE MATERIAL (K044/D003 HAZ WASTE) IS COLLECTED IS A 55-GAL SAA DRUM, WHICH WAS OPEN. RESPONDNET WAS STORING A BLUE PLASTIC 55-GAL DRUM FOR HAZ WASTE (D002-NITRIC ACID) AND A SMALL WHITE GAL CONTAINER STORING CHRO