# BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY (MEAD JOHNSON) (4) (NATIONAL CASE) ( LEAD)
> **Judicial** · FY2005 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `155708`
- **Case Number:** 05-2005-4561
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- MEAD JOHNSON AND COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Bristol-Meyers Squibb, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to reduce the output of ozone-depleting refrigerants at multiple industrial facilities around the country at a combined cost of $3.65 million in order to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. 

Under an agreement filed in federal court in Indianapolis, New-York based Bristol-Meyer Squibb will be required to retire or retrofit seventeen industrial refrigeration units by July 2009 at facilities in Mt. Vernon and Evansville, Ind.; Hopewell, N.J.; and Humacao and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  The units are used in the facilities’ industrial process or as air conditioners.

In addition, the company has agreed to perform a supplemental environment project that will involve retiring two comfort cooling units at its New Brunswick, N.J. plant and tie-in the air conditioners to the company’s new centralized refrigeration system.  The new system uses water-chilled coolers which act as the refrigerant.      
Combined, the measures that the company is performing will remove over 6,350 pounds of harmful hydrochlorofluorocarbons or HCFCs from their operations.  All upgraded or replacement refrigeration systems at the facilities will use only non ozone-depleting refrigerants.  Further, the company will take additional steps to assure compliance with the EPA regulations at thirteen of its facilities and pay $127,000 in civil penalties.  Region 5 facilities included in the settlement were located in Zeeland, MI

---
*Source: [EPA ECHO](https://echo.epa.gov/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*