Unisea agrees to $142,000 settlement with EPA over alleged Clean Air Act violations
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Cordova Times] September 18, 2014
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said Sept. 17 they have settled with the Alaska seafood processor Unisea Inc. for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act Risk Management Program.
The EPA said that when UniSea's seafood processing facility at Dutch Harbor was inspected On July 21, 2010 inspectors found that UniSea had greater than the 10,000-pound Clean Air Act threshold of anhydrous ammonia and greater than the 2,500-pound threshold of chlorine. The inspection found several violations of the risk management plan regulations. The settlement included a $142,175 penalty.
The federal Clean Air Act requires that all public and private facilities that manufacture, produce, use, store or otherwise handle flammable gases and toxic chemicals develop risk management plans, which are used by local emergency planners and responders to protect the public from accidental releases of toxic gases like chlorine, propane, sulfur dioxide and formaldehyde...
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