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Air Enforcement Accomplishments Fiscal Year 2005
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EPA’s air enforcement team helped to improve air quality for millions of residents in the large urban centers of EPA’s Pacific Southwest Region.
EPA settles with Chevron over Clean Air Act violations at 3 regional refineriesChevron U.S.A. Inc., as part of a larger national settlement, agreed to pay a penalty of $2.7 million for Clean Air Act violations. The settlement requires Chevron to spend an estimated $275 million nationwide ($72.5 million for the refineries in Region 9) to install and implement pollution control technologies to reduce emissions at its refineries. Chevron also will spend more than $4 million (more than $3 million in Region 9) on further emissions controls and other environmental projects in communities around the company's refineries. The states of Hawaii and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District will share in the cash penalties and the benefits of the environmental projects to be performed by Chevron.
Glass company agrees to spend $13.8 million to resolve Clean Air Act violations, settlement establishes precedential NOx emission limits for the glass manufacturing industry
Saint-Gobain Containers Inc. agreed to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Madera, Calif., facility, reducing air emissions by 400 tons per year. The company agreed to spend $13.8 million to install and operate air pollution control equipment and will also spend $1.2 million to reduce pollution as part of a supplemental environmental project. This precedential settlement establishes the most stringent NOx limit for a container glass furnace in the country.
EPA, DOJ finalized $900,000 settlement with ARCO for air violations at Port of Long Beach, ARCO will spend $675,000 for new pollution-control equipment to control diesel engine exhaust
EPA and the Department of Justice settled with ARCO Terminal Services Corp, for air pollution violations at the Port of Long Beach, Calif. ARCO will pay a $225,000 fine and invest in a $675,000 environmental project at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to control diesel exhaust from cargo handling equipment. The environmental project will reduce a diesel particulate and other pollutants from cargo handling and trucks operating in the surrounding area.
EPA reached a $118,404 settlement with the University of California over violations of the federal Clean Air Act.
EPA reached a $118,404 settlement with the University of California over violations of the federal Clean Air Act. The civil penalty stems from 15 stratospheric ozone protection violations identified during inspections of U.C.’s Berkeley and Davis campuses in 2002. The Stratospheric ozone layer is the earth’s protective shield against excessive ultraviolet radiation. The stratospheric ozone protection program aims to prevent depletion of the ozone layer through a national recycling and emission reduction program for ozone-depleting refrigerants. The program includes leak repair and record-keeping requirements for refrigeration equipment and appliances containing greater than 50 pounds of ozone-depleting refrigerants.
Mobil settlement includes environmental projects on tribal land
Read this story in the Communities and Ecosystems section.
Air enforcement team inspects islands’ air pollution sources
An EPA’s air enforcement team traveled to Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas to inspect the islands’ air pollution sources and conduct training to local inspectors of the island environmental protection agencies. EPA and local inspectors conducted 28 inspections of most of the islands’ power plants, gasoline distribution facilities, and incinerators, some dry cleaners, back-up generators, a shipyard and a landfill. Compliance problems were discovered at two Saipan incinerators which resulted in enforcement actions. Full compliance at the incinerators are expected by January 2006.