April 12, 2022
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Hanover 76, Inc. (“Hanover”) entered into an April 7th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Pennsylvania underground storage tank (“UST”) regulations. See Docket No. RCRA-03-2022-0045.
The CA provides that Hanover has been the owner and operator, as those terms are defined in Section 9001(4) of RCRA, of USTs at a facility (“Facility”) in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
EPA is stated to have conducted an inspection of the Facility on March 18, 2019. At all relevant times to the applicable violations alleged in the CA the USTs are stated to have contained regulated substances at the time of the inspection.
Violations alleged in the CA include:
- Failure to conduct tank release detection
- Failure to conduct annual line leak detector testing
- Failure to conduct secondary piping release detection
A civil penalty of $25,000 is assessed.
A copy of the CA can be downloaded here.
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