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Inspection Report; Physics International <br />Inspection of November 14, 1996 <br />Page 4 <br />Leandro. His replacement as Facility Manager is Tony Meier. They <br />told me that Mrl Meier was at a meeting at San Leandro. Ms. Davis <br />called the San Leandro office and reached Mr. Cayere who said he <br />would come out ito the test facility immediately but it would take <br />him about an hour. I awhiles. Davis <br />wasoask Mr. Cayere wa ting for him. f Hectold <br />ould <br />review some of the records <br />Ms. Davis thatlthis would be acceptable. <br />Ms. Davis brought me the manifests and LDR records, inspection <br />records and training records. There were only three manifests in <br />1996. Manifest 95847850 was for shipment of photographi9c96wastes to <br />Chemical Waste'Management at Kettleman on October 3' 1. Section VII). <br />re <br />was no BOE number in Block B (see Violation 1, <br />Manifest 95144156 was for shipment of adsorbent contaminated with <br />oil to Romic on April 17, 1996. This manife e do dDOTtdesc contin an <br />and a Romic profile number (see ription <br />actual description of the waste, only <br />(Non-RCRA Hazardous Waste, Solid) roblems were observed on the <br />Violation 1, Section VII). No other p <br />three manifests or on the LDR notifications. <br />On December 6, 1995 a shipment of hazardous waste was each with to <br />Romic. This shipment consisted of four wastes, <br />separate manifest. The numbers were 95144150, 95144152, 95144153 <br />and 95144154. Physics International had made corrections on the <br />last three of these manifests before shipment, but the co No ctions <br />were not initialed (see Violation 1, Section VII). <br />other <br />problems were observed with the manifests or the LDR notifications. <br />I also reviewed manifest 9 2 798o for a shipment roblems were observf photochemicals <br />to Romic on May 1, 15 P <br />Ms. Davis gave me a notebook containing the weekly inspection <br />records for the hazardous waste operations. The notebook also <br />contained a summary sheet for the year showing when the inspections <br />had been dole and by whom. The summary sheet showed that <br />inspections ad been missed on July 6, September 26 and October 24 <br />and 31, 1996. The weekly inspection sheets for several weeks <br />ending on Au ust 22, 1996 indicated that the warning signs on the <br />and hazardous wa to sterwge area were ek of August 9e,� 19961and gs bsequentsweeksy <br />was not made on the g problemthe had been <br />No entry ha been made indicatintold me that ew signs had been <br />corrected. r. Cayere subsequently <br />installed. did not write a violation for these since Mr. Cayere <br />informed me that the facility is presently operation as a generator <br />only (see bjelow), and inspection records are not required of <br />generators. <br />Mr. Cay re and Mr. Meier arrived at about 10:15. I explained <br />the purpose of the inspection and asked which of them could give <br />consent. T ey told me that they Cayereere exp ai nedth atheocurrent status <br />consent and oth gave it. <br />