Hazardous Waste Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Etowah County Commercial Hazardous Waste Treatment and Storage Facility Enter into Consent Order

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.

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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Giant Resource Recovery-Attalla, Inc. (“Giant”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the hazardous waste regulations. See Consent Order No. 23-XXX-CHW.

The CO provides that Giant operates a permitted commercial hazardous waste treatment and storage facility (“Facility”) in Etowah County, Alabama.

The Facility is described as a permitted hazardous waste treatment and storage facility. It also is a:

  • Large quantity generator of hazardous waste
  • Used oil generator
  • Used oil fuel marketer
  • Small quantity handler of universal waste

Representatives of ADEM’s Industrial Hazardous Waste Branch are stated to have conducted a compliance evaluation inspection (“CEI”) of the Facility on June 21, 2022. The CEI and a review of Giant’s compliance is stated to have indicated the following:

  • Failure to immediately transfer waste from a damaged 55-gallon container of hazardous waste located in the Dump Trailer Area to a container that was in good condition
  • Storage of three 55-gallon containers of hazardous waste located in aisle A12 of the Container Storage Area for greater than one year
  • Failure to keep closed one 85-gallon over-pack container of hazardous waste and one 5-gallon container of hazardous waste located in the Dump Trailer Area

Giant notes in response that the three 55-gallon containers stored for greater than one year were solely for the purpose of accumulation, as necessary to ensure proper treatment at an off-site incinerator. Further, it asserts that one dented container was structurally sound and wholly contained its contents. Therefore, the container is stated to have not posed a risk to the environment or health.

Giant neither admits nor denies ADEM’s contentions.

The CO assesses a civil penalty of $13,500.

A copy of the CO can be downloaded here.

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