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Iowa Beef Packers, Inc. (IBP) Multimedia Settlement

World's Largest Meatpacker Reaches Agreement with U.S. to Resolve Environmental Problems throughout Midwest

Iowa Beef Packers, Inc. (IBP), the world's largest meatpacker, has agreed to pay the United States $4.1 million in penalties for violating the nation's environmental laws. Under the settlement, IBP has committed to construct additional wastewater treatment systems at its Dakota City, Nebraska plant to reduce its discharges of ammonia to the Missouri River, and has agreed to continue and expand operational improvements ordered last year that will significantly reduce hydrogen sulfide air emissions.

Today's agreement filed by the Justice Department on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) resolves charges that IBP violated the Clean Air Act (CAA); the Clean Water Act CWA); the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act at its 200-acre complex of facilities located near Dakota City, Nebraska, as well as additional violations at IBP facilities in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Texas. Each day, some 5,000 head of cattle are slaughtered and between 4,000 to 5,000 hides are tanned at the facility. In addition, approximately 4 million gallons of contaminated wastewater are treated at the plant and then discharged into the Missouri River.

IBP, Inc. was aquired by Tyson Foods, Inc. on September 28, 2001.

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