The Respondent owns or operates a chemical distribution facility where the respondent has used or stored more than 15,000 pounds of formaldehyde. 40 C.F.R. § 68.25(a)(2)(i) requires the owner or operator of a stationary source to analyze and report in a Risk Management Plan (“RMP”) the worse-case release scenario that is estimated to create the greatest distance in any direction to an endpoint resulting from an accidental release of a regulated toxic substance from a covered process under worst-case conditions.
NOTE: This case involved ONLY one (1) issue. The issue was the RMP listed a WCS that was no longer applicable to the facility and did not reflect the actual WCS at the time of the inspection. This chemical distribution business was also in the news with its $800K settlement at four other distribution facilities and this may have impacted the $125K amount for this single error.
ALLEGED VIOLATIONS