# CENTRAL INDUSTRIES, INC.
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Dismissed By Tribunal
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `23243`
- **Case Number:** 04-1999-0369
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Dismissed By Tribunal
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- CENTRAL INDUSTRIES, INC. (complaint)
## Summary

CENTRAL HAD SUBSTANTIAL EXCEEDENCES OF ITS NPDES PERMIT.     WE ARE TAKING AN ACTION UNDER SECTION 308 OF THE CWA FOR     BOTH UNPERMITTED DISCHARGES AND FOR VIOLATIONS OF THEIR      NPDES PERMIT.  CENTRAL IS A MISSISSIPPI CORP. OWNED BY       FIVE LARGE CORPORATIONS, INCLUDING TYSON.  CENTRAL IS        A LARGE CHICKEN RENDERING PLANT.  THIS IS A  PENALTY CASE    PRIMARILY, ALTHOUGH WE WILL BE REQUESTED ANY NECESSARY       INJUNCTIVE RELIEF TO RETURN THE PLANT TO FULL COMPLIANCE.    THIS CASE IS A PARALLEL PROCEEDING IN WHICH A GRAND JURY     INVESTIGATION HAS ALREADY BEGUN.  THE PURPOSE OF THIS        CASE IS TO PRESERVE THE VIOLATIONS AS THE FIVE YEAR SOL      HAS ALREADY RUN ON A NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS AND IS ABOUT       TO RUN ON OTHERS.  THUS, OECA ALLOWED THE REGION TO          SEND THE REFERRAL DIRECTLY TO DOJ DESPITE IT BEING A         CASE OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.

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