# PREFERRED FREEZER SERVICES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2011 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `2200022665`
- **Case Number:** 01-2011-1007
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- PREFERRED FREEZER SERVICES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On March 15, 2011, Region I reached a settlement with Preferred Freezer Services, LLC (Preferred), a commercial refrigeration company with 25 facilities nationwide, in which Preferred will pay a $75,000 fine to settle an environmental enforcement action brought by Region I for Clean Air Act violations at Preferred’s refrigerated warehouses in Raynham, Sharon and Westfield, Massachusetts.  Preferred violated federal regulations designed to prevent chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from leaking from industrial refrigeration equipment; failed to certify that it had appropriate CFC recovery or recycling equipment; failed to obtain training certifications for a service technician; and, provided incomplete initial responses to an EPA information request.

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