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We at AIC pride ourselves for being compliant to and with all Federal, state, and local regulations. We have always reached out to all local authorities to ensure that any of our processes do not have a negative impact to the health and safety of our Employees, Customers, and our community. I have address the issues stated in the Environmental Health Department Inspection Report. Listed below by Item#are the corrective actions taken or explained to return to compliance. Item#102 Failed to determine if a waste is a hazardous waste: Nuisance powder/dust is raw powder coating material that has been processed and captured in vacuum filters.This material is then collected and placed into heat resistant plastic bags and baked into a solid piece of plastic that is discarded into the trash. Once baked it is no longer a dust nuisance. The waste going into the trash is not a hazardous waste. Ash waste from paint stripper. Painted parts are placed into the oven where the coating will be baked off.The parts are taken to a temperature that will burn off the previous coating and leave the substrate intact. Once the old coating is removed we can process parts.There is an afterburner attached to the back of the oven to ensure that no harmful fumes or gases is released into the air per San Joaquin County Air Quality.The ash produced from the oven is essentially burnt plastic and that ash is discarded into the trash. Paint filters that capture paint mist that is sprayed to waste. Filters are not sprayed and the vacuum in the booth sucks in the fumes, the filters absorb the sprayed mist of paint and solvent to reduce/minimize the VOC's entering our air. Since it is only a mist that is being absorbed into the filters, coupled with the air from the vacuum, by the end of the shift those filters containing solvent and paint are dried. During booth maintenance (done in the AM) those dry filters are discarded into the trash. Filters containing dry paint/solvent is not a hazardous waste. Rags containing paint/acetone are used in our process to clean guns, cups, and paint containers.These rags are single use and like the paint filters are dried in the booth prior to placing into a closed 55 Gal. steel drum. Once the 55 Gal. drum is almost filled,the dry paint/solvent soiled rags are placed into cardboard boxes and taken to the San Joaquin County Household Hazardous Waste Consolidation Facility. Rags soiled with Paint/solvent is dried and can be placed into the trash, however, we ship this out as universal waste as an added precaution. Rinse water from the stripping process where the sludge is created has been determined as hazardous waste and will be handled and disposed of properly. Based on the process of rinsing parts that have been in contact with the stripping chemical it's safe to assume that the rinse water is contaminated.This waste will be on-site and sent out for disposal within 180 day of the start date. We have purchased a 28 gallon plastic bin with a locking lid.The bin will remain closed and locked when not being used in process. Bin will be labeled with hazardous waste accumulation sticker and shipped out within 180 days of the start date.