Under the consent agreement filed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an EPA representative conducted a compliance evaluation inspection at the company’s Grandview facility in February 2010, and noted several violations of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which regulates hazardous waste.
The company failed to perform hazardous waste determinations on multiple waste streams, stored hazardous wastes without a RCRA permit, and offered hazardous waste for transport without a hazardous waste manifest.
EPA said the facility was storing approximately 17,750 pounds of hazardous wastes, not including the waste pharmaceuticals, at the time of the Agency’s inspection.
The EPA inspection also noted that the facility had on multiple occasions shipped hazardous waste pharmaceuticals to a medical waste incinerator for disposal, without using a required hazardous waste manifest.
