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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Curaleaf entered into a June 30th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing an alleged violation of the New York Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) regulations. See Docket No. RCRA-02-2022-7213.

The ESA provides that Curaleaf is the owner or operator of Curaleaf NY (“Facility”) which is located in Ravena, New York.

EPA is stated to have conducted a review of e-manifest data of hazardous waste shipments from this Facility. Further, the federal agency is stated to have had discussions with Curaleaf regarding its findings.

The ESA states EPA determined that Curaleaf failed to have an EPA identification number prior to transporting or offering for transport hazardous waste from the Facility. It is specifically stated that:

. . . during the years 2019-2021 Respondent shipped hazardous waste from its Facility using hazardous waste manifest(s) without having received an EPA identification number in violation of Title 6 N.Y.C.R.R. Section 372.2(a)(3).

Curaleaf is stated to neither admit nor deny the allegations contained in the ESA.

A civil penalty of $1,250 is assessed.

A copy of the ESA can be downloaded here.