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THE SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO. (SHERWIN WILLIAMS)

Administrative - Formal · FY2022 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3603355945

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Penalty
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Cost recovery
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2022-0035
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
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Self-disclosure
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Defendants (1)

Summary

On June 16, 2022, Region III entered into a Consent Agreement with, and issued a Final Order to through the use of an Expedited Settlement Agreement (ESA) with Sherwin Williams; settling violations of RCRA Subtitle C that EPA inspectors observed during an inspection of the company's facility in Pittsburgh, PA (Facility). The settlement will ensure that, in the future, the company will properly contain and manage hazardous waste at the Facility. During the inspection of the Facility, and through subsequent communications, the EPA inspectors observed that the company: (1) failure to label a container of solvent contaminated wipes (EPA Hazardous Waste No. D001) being sent offsite for cleaning and reuse; (2) failed to mark two containers of hazardous waste with the accumulation start date; (3) failed to mark containers accumulating hazardous waste with the words, Hazardous Waste; (4) to keep a Satellite Accumulation Area ( SAA ) container at or near the point of generation and under the control of the operator of the process of generating the waste; (5) failed to maintain personnel records; (6) failed to mark SAA containers with the words Hazardous Waste; (7) failed to make hazardous waste determinations for several containers of solid waste; (8) failed to maintain the signed copy of manifest for three years from the date the waste was accepted by the initial transporter; (9) failed to submit to EPA an Exception Report; (10) failed to provide written job descriptions for each pos

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