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BULK CHEMICALS, INC.

Administrative - Formal · FY2022 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3603355026

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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2022-0100
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
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Self-disclosure
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Defendants (1)

Summary

The Regional Judicial Officer issued a Final Order on September 15, 2022, accepting the Consent Agreement to commence and settle violations of CAA 112(r)(1). EPA determined that Bulk Chemicals, Inc., the current operator of a chemical manufacturing and distribution facility plant located at 72 Feick Avenue in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and the former operator of chemical manufacturing and distribution facilities located at 809 Mohrsville Road in Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania and 1076 Park Road in Blandon, Pennsylvania, had violated CAA Section 112(r)(1) at the three facilities because of its failure to ensure that oxidizers, corrosives, toxics, flammables and combustibles were stored safely in accordance with industry codes and standards. EPA conducted inspections of the three facilities after a nitric acid release and fire at the Shoemakersville Facility and issued an Administrative Compliance Order on Consent (Order) to Bulk Chemicals to retain a third-party contractor to assess compliance with industry codes and standards and to make improvements at the Blandon and Hamburg facilities to ensure chemicals were safely stored in order to improve public health and safety by decreasing the risk of releases of hazardous chemicals. Bulk Chemicals closed the Shoemakersville Facility prior to the Order and closed the Blandon facility during the course of the Order. Bulk Chemicals has complied with the Order. In settlement of the CAA 112(r) violations, Bulk Chemicals has agreed to pay a

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