The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice has announced that one of the world’s largest producers of titanium parts for jet engines, has agreed to pay a record $13.75m million civil penalty following the unauthorized manufacture and disposal of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) at one of its manufacturing facilities. They are also required to perform an extensive investigation and cleanup of potential contamination.
This is the largest ever penalty imposed for violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) at a single facility and the company will also pay an extra $250,000 for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) due to the illegal disposal of hazardous process wastewater.
The company has also agreed to submit monitoring data biannually to EPA for three years showing that it is appropriately managing any PCBs it generates.
The company has already spent approximately $6m on investigation, site clean-up, and compliance measures to address the potential contamination. It is estimated that the activities will result in the removal of approximately 84,000 pounds of PCB-contaminated waste from the environment each year, and will prevent the improper disposal of 56 million pounds of hazardous waste each year.
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