Thursday, October 6, 2016

Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations





NEWS BRIEF: Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations
10/05/2016
Contact Information:
Margot Perez-Sullivan (perezsullivan.margot@epa.gov)
415-947-4149

For Immediate Release: October 5, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined Semiray, an industrial processing facility, $65,000 for violating federal hazardous waste laws.

Semiray, located on 3027 East Washington Street north of Sky Harbor Airport, services the aerospace, military, electronics, and commercial manufacturing industries, and its activities create metal plating wastes. Following three Notices of Violation issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Phoenix from 2010 to 2012, the EPA inspected the facility.

During its 2014 inspection, the EPA identified several hazardous waste violations, including:
  • Storing hazardous metal plating wastes without a permit
  • Failure to properly maintain the facility to minimize the possibility of a release of hazardous waste to air, soil, or surface water
  • Failure to train workers, increasing their risk of exposure and the likelihood of improper waste management

Following the EPA’s inspection, Semiray personnel completed hazardous waste training and upgraded portions of the facility’s wastewater treatment plant at which hazardous plating wastes had been improperly stored.

The federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program oversees the safe management and disposal of hazardous waste. Under authority delegated by the EPA, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality enforces this hazardous waste management program in the State, and today’s enforcement action is part of EPA’s responsibility to ensure the State effectively implements its program.

For more information on the RCRA program, please visit:
https://www.epa.gov/rcra


Semiray Special Process Division




Semiray is an independent, accredited full service provider of NDT, Chemical and Special processes servicing the aerospace, military, electronics, and commercial manufacturing industries. Semiray’s services are designed to comply with industry standards, military specifications, and an array of customer requirements. Our highly qualified and experienced staff is committed to delivering our customers with timely and accurate results.

Our multi-disciplinary ASNT Level III NDT staff and other specialists have many years of experience in product evaluation, testing and inspection. At Semiray we maintain the highest level of certification in NDT as part of our commitment to ensure continuous improvement and reliable accurate results. Semiray’s experienced staff is evident in all aspects of our operation and is a critical part in assuring customer satisfaction, performance, and quality expectations.

Semiray holds many Prime and NADCAP approvals which give us the edge in providing our customers with multiprocessing, which dramatically reduces the lead time to our customers. Our company quality policy is simple: “Dedicated to Providing Spirited Service and Unsurpassed Quality”. This has been Semiray’s approach back when it was first founded and this philosophy still stands today.