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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Giant Resource Recovery-Attalla, Inc. (“Giant”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) on January 25 regarding the alleged violations of Alabama’s hazardous waste regulations. See Consent Order No. 22-XXX-CHW.
The CO provides that Giant operates a licensed commercial hazardous waste processing and storage facility (“Facility”) in Attalla, Alabama.
Plant operations are described as including:
- Treatment and storage of hazardous waste
- Generator of large quantities of hazardous waste
- waste oil generator
- Used oil marketer
- Handler of small quantities of universal waste
A representative of the Hazardous Industrial Waste Branch of ADEM would have carried out a conformity assessment visit (“CEI”) of the Installation on August 18, 2021.
The IEC and a review of Giant’s compliance reportedly indicated the following violations:
- Two drums containing hazardous waste located in the container storage warehouse were not in good condition.
- Storage of a 275 gallon bin containing hazardous waste in the container storage warehouse for over a year.
In response to the alleged violations, Giant asserted that:
. . . the only metal bin stored for more than a year was only for accumulation, necessary to ensure proper treatment in an off-site incinerator.
Giant neither admits nor denies ADEM’s assertions.
A civil penalty of $10,080 is imposed.
A copy of the CO can be downloaded here.
