SEATTLE (June 23, 2022) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency introduced immediately that the U.S. Air Force has agreed to pay a $206,811 penalty for hazardous waste storage and dealing with violations at the Eareckson Air Station on Shemya Island in Alaska.
In an settlement signed final week, EPA alleges the Air Force saved hazardous wastes at the air station with out a allow and failed to correctly label and examine waste containers and an above-ground storage tank in which the hazardous wastes had been saved.
EPA discovered that the Air Force improperly saved greater than a ton of hazardous paints, hydrochloric acid, methyl ethyl ketone, and oxidizers, and greater than 25 tons of hazardous waste gasoline and oil. These wastes had been saved for years longer than allowed below the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act which governs the dealing with of hazardous wastes.
