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HANCOCK FOODS INC

Administrative - Formal · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3600972524

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
01-2017-1002
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On November 30, 2016, Region 1 executed a Consent Agreement and Final Order with Hancock Foods, Inc. for violating the Clean Air Act's Risk Management Planning (RMP) regulations and CERCLA's Notification Rules at its blueberry processing plant in Hancock, Maine. The facility uses anhydrous ammonia as a refrigerant for process chilling and warehouse cooling. Hancock Foods will pay a penalty of $103,613 for the RMP violations under the CAA and a penalty of $5,110 for the CERCLA violation for a total of $108,723. EPA previously issued an administrative compliance order for the RMP violations with which the company complied. The facility itself is not in an area warranting further environmental justice review, but a worst-case release of ammonia from the plant could affect areas that merit environmental justice review.

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