Anchor Glass Container Corporation is one of the handful of large container glass manufacturing companies in the United States. The company currently operates 11 container glass furnaces at 6 container glass manufacturing plants in 6 states (New York, Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, Indiana, and Oklahoma). The Consent Decree addresses violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) program and New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) at Anchor's facilities. This is a global settlement including all eleven of Anchor's container glass manufacturing furnaces. EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, EPA Regions 2, 4, 5, and 6, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality are jointly entering into this settlement agreement with Anchor.
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, Anchor will install state-of-the-art air pollution control equipment to control emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and particulate matter (PM) at an estimated cost of $20 million. Anchor will also be required to undertake two environmental mitigation projects valued at $600,000. One project will fund woodburning appliance replacements near the Shakopee facility in Minnesota; the other project will fund diesel engine retrofits, replacements, or repowers near Jacksonville, Florida (an environmental justice community of concern). Upon full implementation of the proposed Consent D