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TForce Freight, Inc.

Administrative - Formal · FY2022 · — · — · 3603472559

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Penalty
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Cost recovery
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Compliance action

Case

Case Number
06-2022-0943
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
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Multimedia
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Self-disclosure
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Defendants (1)

Summary

On December 12, 2022, the Environmental Appeals Board ratified a Consent Agreement ( CA ) between the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA ) and TForce Freight Inc. ( TFI ). The agreement followed a year-long negotiation between EPA and TFI, led by Region 6, and supported from EPA HQs. The CA resolves violations of hazardous waste regulations at facilities across forty-five (45) states and the territory of Puerto Rico. The model for the negotiation and settlement mirrored the R6 settlement for similar claims alleged by R6 in a Consent Agreement and Final Order, which R6 filed in 2021. Respondent's facilities generate hazardous waste regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ) when a package containing certain hazardous materials is damaged, as well as during day-to-day operations such as maintenance. EPA expanded the R6 investigation and through data mining (using the e-Manifest system and other reporting databases) EPA identified many TFI facilities that were generating and managing hazardous waste in all three generator statuses?Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators, Small Quantity Generators, and Large Quantity Generators?without providing all the required information about these facilities to EPA and/or the respective states. From the analysis of the information gathered from the data mining sources, EPA determined that Respondent generated, accumulated, and offered for transport, treatment, and/or disposal from its facilities certain

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