# Ocean Gold Seafoods Inc and Ocean Cold LLC
> **Judicial** · FY2012 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3000062044`
- **Case Number:** 10-2012-0205
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Ocean Cold LLC (complaint) (settlement)
- Ocean Gold Seafoods Inc. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On April 25, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice entered a consent decree in settlement of Clean Air Act (CAA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know (EPCRA) claims against Ocean Gold Seafoods, Inc. and Ocean Cold, LLC, two affiliated seafood processing companies, imposing civil penalties and injunctive relief for violations of CAA Title VI and EPCRA 312 and 313 at Defendants facilities in Westport, Washington. Defendants use R-22, an ozone depleting substance that is also subject to the requirements of EPCRA, as a refrigerant in their seafood processing operations.  Defendants failed to repair leaks of R-22 in a timely manner, to maintain records of service, and to provide timely EPCRA reports regarding their storage and releases of R-22.  The consent decree requires Defendants to pay a civil penalty of $495,000, to commit to a refrigerant release reduction program, implement an improved refrigerant compliance management plan, to train employees at least annually in their refrigerant-related work requirements, and to provide periodic records to EPA.  Defendants also agreed to engage a third-party verifier to perform an inspection of the facilities to observe Defendants leak detection and recordkeeping practices, as well as to determine whether the Defendants actions conform to the Consent Decree and management plan requirements.

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