[ADEQ Media] Attorney General Goddard and ADEQ Director Owens Announce Clean Harbors to Pay $45, 000 Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in South Phoenix

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Attorney General Goddard and ADEQ Director Owens Announce  Clean Harbors
to Pay $45,000 Penalty for  Hazardous Waste Violations in South Phoenix

(Phoenix, Ariz. - May 7, 2007) Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
and ADEQ Director Steve Owens today announced that Clean Harbors
Arizona, LLC (Clean Harbors) has agreed to pay a $45,000 penalty for
hazardous waste violations at the company's south Phoenix facility.

Clean Harbors operates a hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal
facility in south Phoenix. ADEQ's hazardous waste inspectors observed
several violations of environmental regulations during an inspection in
July 2005. ADEQ issued a Notice of Violation to Clean Harbors in
September 2005, citing several hazardous waste violations including
failure to conduct daily inspections of tanks, failure to transfer
hazardous waste from a leaking or compromised container, failure to
amend the contingency plan and failure to minimize the possibility of
fire, explosion or release of hazardous waste. 

Two violations were repeat violations initially discovered during an
inspection of the facility in 2004, for which the company received a
Notice of Violation in September 2004.

"These were serious violations of our hazardous waste laws," Owens said.
"Clean Harbors must ensure that violations like these do not occur
again."

"I am committed to enforcing the laws that protect human health and the
environment. Companies that violate these laws will be held
accountable," Goddard said. 

Clean Harbors' Phoenix-based facility is located at 1340 West Lincoln
Street.  

The consent judgment is subject to court approval.

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