On June 29, 2017, Region 1 and the City of Cranston, Rhode Island (Cranston) and Veolia Water North America ? Northeast, LLC (Veolia) settled a Clean Air Act (CAA) administrative enforcement case for violations of CAA Sewage Sludge Incinerator Federal Plan requirements in 40 CFR Part 62, Subpart LLL (Federal Plan). Cranston and Veolia will pay a total penalty of $35,000.
Region 1 alleged that Cranston and Veolia failed to: (1) timely submit a final control plan, (2) submit all of its monthly status reports, (3) timely submit a site-specific monitoring plan, and (4) timely submit their initial compliance report. The submittal of these documents in a timely, sequential manner is significant because EPA uses these plans and reports to evaluate if a facility is operating in compliance with the Federal Plan requirements. This program has not been delegated to the states.
The Federal Plan was designed to control neurotoxins such as mercury and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) emitted from sewage sludge incinerators. Excess emissions of mercury and other HAPs could have serious local impacts. In this matter, EPA did not identify any excess emissions of toxic air pollutants. Cranston and Veolia have now resolved the alleged reporting and monitoring violations, and EPA is now able to monitor the facility's compliance with the Federal Plan requirements.
This is the first Region 1 CAA settlement agreement with a sewage sludge incinerator for violations of the Federal Plan r