EPA RCRA ID: PAD082957127
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the public law that creates the framework for the proper management of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste. Corrective action is a requirement under RCRA that facilities that treat, store or dispose of hazardous wastes, or did so in the past, investigate and clean up hazardous releases into soil, groundwater, surface water and air. For more information, and for more information on RCRA-specific terms used on this page, please visit EPA’s umbrella RCRA web page or EPA’s RCRA Corrective Action page.
On this page:
- Cleanup Activities
- Facility Description
- Institutional/Engineering Controls
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Related Information and Publicly Available Electronic Records
- Contacts for this Facility
Cleanup Activities
An investigation in 1994 of the ABB Incorporated Product Support facility (Facility) concluded that the "Facility requires no corrective action at this time" but suggested that the former landfill parcel that was sold by ABB in 1985 should be characterized. However, sampling results from Superfund's 1991 Site Investigation (SI), a 1981 letter from the Facility to EPA, the 2002 Environmental Indicator (EI) Inspection Report, and visual inspections in 1991 and 2008 suggest that only non-hazardous materials were disposed of in the former landfill and that any impacts from materials placed in the landfill fall under protective levels. In April 2009, EPA issued a Final Decision of Corrective Action Complete without Controls for the Facility.
Cleanup Actions or environmental indicators characterizing the entire facility are shown below. This listing, and all the data on this page, come from EPA’s RCRAInfo and are refreshed nightly to this page. For this table, a blank in the Status column could mean the action either has not occurred or has not been reported in RCRAInfo.
Cleanup Activities Pertaining to the Entire Facility
| Action | Status | Date of Action |
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| Human Exposure Under Control Human Exposure Under Control(CA725) | ||
| Groundwater Migration Under ControlGroundwater Migration Under Control (CA750) | ||
| Remedy DecisionRemedy Decision (CA400) | ||
| Remedy ConstructionRemedy Construction (CA550) | ||
| Ready for Anticipated Use Ready for Anticipated Use (CA800) | ||
| Performance Standards AttainedPerformance Standards Attained (CA900) | ||
| Corrective Action Process TerminatedCorrective Action Process Terminated (CA999) |
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Cleanup Activities Pertaining to a Portion of the Facility
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Facility Description
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The ABB Incorporated Product Support facility is located in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The Facility is approximately 5.5 acres. The Facility is bordered by Broad Street to the east and south, by Theobold Avenue to the north, and by railroad tracks to the west.
The Facility has been in operation since 1958. It was formerly used for the plating and etching of electrical parts in conjunction with the manufacturing of high-voltage circuit breakers. Currently the Facility operates as a circuit breaker servicing and maintenance facility, as manufacturing capabilities moved to a new plant in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania in 2003.
The 13-acre Facility was divided in 1958 into northern and southern parts. The southern part includes most of the current operational buildings. The northern plant area was sold in 1985. That part of the site is now leased to the Facility. In 1985, the two-acre inactive landfill located south of the Facility also was sold. This unlined and unauthorized landfill was active from the early 1980s until 1988. This area was inspected in 1991 by the EPA Region 3 Superfund program manager. The area was covered with asphalt at that time and used as an employee parking lot. The toxicological evaluation of 1991 determined that "samples … revealed notable levels of benzo(a)pyrene (PAHs) and low levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) in soils/sediments and elevated metals in surface waters and some soils;" however, these levels are below acceptable risk levels established by the EPA.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls were not required at the site.
Institutional and Engineering Controls help ensure human exposure and groundwater migration are under control at a cleanup facility. Where control types have been reported by states and EPA in EPA’s RCRAInfo, they are shown below. Not all control types are needed at all facilities, and some facilities do not require any controls. Where there are blanks, the control types may not be needed, may not be in place, or may not be reported in RCRAInfo.
Are Controls in Place at this Facility?
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Control(s) in Place? |
Areas Subject to Control(s) |
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Institutional ControlsNon-engineering controls used to restrict land use or land access in order to protect people and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances remaining in the site/or facility. (CA 772) |
Informational DevicesInformational Devices (ID) |
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Governmental Controls (GC) |
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| Proprietary ControlsProprietary Controls (PR) | |||
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Engineering ControlsEngineering measures designed to minimize the potential for human exposure to contamination by either limiting direct contact with contaminated areas or controlling migration of contaminants. (CA 770) |
Groundwater ControlGroundwater Control (GW) |
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Enforcement and Compliance at this Facility
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) provides detailed historical information about enforcement and compliance activities at each RCRA Corrective Action Site in their Enforcement and Compliance Historical Online (ECHO) system.
RCRA Enforcement and Compliance Reports from ECHO
Related Information and Publicly Available Electronic Records
For more information about this facility, see these other EPA links:
- RCRA information in EPA’s Envirofacts database
- Information about this facility submitted to EPA under different environmental programs as reported in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Alternative Names for this facility as reported by EPA programs in EPA’s Facility Registry Services
- Cleanups in My Community provides an interactive map to see EPA cleanups in context with additional data, and lists for downloading data
- Search RCRA Corrective Action Sites provides a search feature for Corrective Action Sites
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Contacts for this Facility
EPA Region implements and enforces the RCRA Corrective Action program for and federally recognized tribes.
For further information on this corrective action site, use the Contact Information for Corrective Action Hazardous Waste Clean Ups listings that are accessible through Corrective Action Programs around the Nation.