The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) notified the U.S. Department of Energy of violations of state hazardous waste permits for both the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) [managed by Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC, a joint venture of URS Corporation and B&W Technical Services Group] and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) [managed by Los Alamos National Security, LLC] relating to the handling of transuranic waste that contributed to two significant incidents at WIPP in February 2014. A container filled with radioactive waste from LANL ruptured and caused the indefinite closure of WIPP. NMED found multiple violations at both WIPP and LANL and issued two administrative compliance orders: one identified 13 violations at WIPP and imposed $17.7 million in civil penalties; the other identified a total of 24 violations at LANL and imposed $36.6 million in civil penalties. NMED determined that the violations contributed to an underground fire and a radiological release at WIPP in February 2014.