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EPA Issues Consent Order to MAX Environmental Technologies to Ensure
Compliance with Hazardous Waste Rules at Yukon, PA, Facility
PHILADELPHIA (April 29, 2024) – Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. (MAX) has
agreed to several actions to ensure compliance with federal and state
hazardous waste safeguards at the company’s waste facility in Yukon, PA, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. 
MAX owns and operates a 160-acre facility, surrounded by agricultural and
residential properties, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, PA in
Westmoreland County. According to EPA, this site is an area with potential
environmental justice concerns. MAX conducts waste operations under permits
issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP)
pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Resource Conservation
Recovery Act (RCRA). RCRA is the principal federal hazardous waste storage and
disposal statute.
Among the hazardous wastes at the MAX facility are wastewater treatment
sludge, corrosives, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, selenium,
silver, electric arc furnace dust, and waste acid/pickle liquor.  Waste
management units include five closed impoundments, an active solid waste
landfill, waste storage tanks and containers, hazardous waste treatment units,
and a leachate management system that generates sludge from wastewater
treatment.
EPA officials inspected the facility in March 20-24, 2023, to determine
MAX’s compliance with environmental regulations, including the terms of its
PA DEP-issued CWA and RCRA permits. According to EPA, its inspectors
documented several RCRA permit violations, including but not limited to: (1)
unlawful disposal of hazardous waste in the solid waste landfill at the
facility, (2) failure to maintain a containment building, and (3) failure to
keep the hazardous waste containers closed to prevent hazardous waste release.
The Consent Order announced today addresses RCRA and state hazardous waste
requirements.  MAX has agreed to immediate measures to eliminate the
potential release of solid and hazardous waste into the environment and to
ensure that future ongoing operations do not cause or contribute to releases
at the facility.   The RCRA consent order requirements include, but are not
limited to:   
Prohibition of disposal of untreated and treated hazardous waste in the
facility’s landfill unless it has been reviewed and analyzed by a
third-party auditor and unaffiliated PA DEP-accredited laboratory.  
Retention of an EPA approved third party Professional Engineer to perform a
structural evaluation and recommendations to repair or modify the containment
and processing building and containment pads.
Monitoring and sampling of residential wells adjacent to the facility.
Monthly progress reports and meetings with EPA project managers to evaluate
the compliance actions stated in the Consent Order 
EPA worked closely with PA DEP in investigating conditions and negotiating
this consent order that addresses compliance with RCRA and state hazardous
waste compliance.  EPA and PA DEP are currently reviewing MAX’s compliance
with its CWA permit.  
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