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Inspection Inspection Page 5 Report; Physics International of November 14, 1996 of the facility. Physics International was bought by the Olin Corp. in 1986 and has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary, since. Olin Corp. review d its business about a year and a half ago and decided to spin o,f its defense business. Physics International will be at least part of a new business called PRIMEX when the spin-off is complete. Physics International has completed formal closure of several hazardous waste u its that were operated under its ISD as well as some units that predated the ISD. DTSC accepted the clean closure certification of the last of these units on December 16, 1994. Mr. Cayere also stated that the hazardous waste storage building was being used as gen rator only, i.e., storage of 90 (or 180) days or less. Physics International is currently seeking a permit to operate a unit to detonate waste explosive but this permit has not been issued yet. Thus Mr. Cayere considered the facility to be generator only at this time. At the time that the hazardou of the units refe discovered that units. Further original Part A container storage and November 2, telephone convey: stated that the 90 days. At th< undergo formal c certification th generator storage implementation tc Mr. Cayere 1 work was now a pi cast Octal used explosive contam: "pink" water and practically elim wastes are esseni if the inspection I accepted this claim, assuming waste storage shed had undergone closure as one rred to above. After I returned to the office I .he storage unit was not on the list of closed research showed that Physics International's application dated November 13, 1980 included , but subsequent Part As dated October 31, 1985 1988 did not show container storage. In a ation with Mr. Cayere on December 2, 1996, he torage shed had never been used for storage over t time I told him that the unit would have to losure, or that DTSC would have to accept a .t the unit had never been used for other than ( less than 90 days) . I referred the decision and the Facility Permitting Branch. old me that the explosive used in most of their assable explosive known as LX -14 rather than the previously. This has resulted in much less nated waste than in the past. In particular, wipes and filters contaminated with TNT have been .nated. Thus the treatment systems for these ially unused. After this discussion, I resumed the record review with the contingency plan I observed that Mr. Cayere was still listed as the emergency coordinator and that Mr. Meier's name was not listed (see Violation 2, Section VII). Mr. Cayere stated that the change in assignments h d occurred about four months previously. I asked for he most recent Source Reduction Plan. Mr. Cayere stated that Phys cs International was exempt from the requirement