May 14
Clean Harbors Arizona LLC recently agreed to pay a $45,000 penalty for hazardous waste violations at the company´s south Phoenix facility, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality said.
The company operates a hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility at the site, and state inspectors observed violations of environmental regulations during a July 2005 inspect. Those included failure do conduct daily tank inspections, failure to transfer hazardous waste from a leaking or compromised container and failure to amend the company´s contingency plan, the state said. Clean Harbors also failed to minimize the possibility of fire, explosion or release of hazardous waste, the state alleged.
"These were serious violations of our hazardous waste laws," ADEQ Director Steve Owens said. "Clean Harbors must ensure that violations like these do not occur again."
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