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CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORTION (CARGILL MEAT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION - WYALUSING)

Administrative - Formal · FY2019 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3601955058

Penalty
Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2019-0091
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On August 27, 2019, EPA filed a Consent Agreement and Final Order, which initiated and settled EPA's penalty claim for violations of Section 112(r)(7) of the CAA against Cargill Meat Solution Corporation ( Respondent ) which EPA inspectors observed during an inspection of Respondent's facility in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania ( the Facility ), where Respondent utilizes 170,300 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, a regulated substance, exceeding the 10,000-pound threshold quantity under 40 C.F.R. 68.130. The Consent Agreement asserts that Respondent violated Section 112(r)(7) of the CAA, and the following implementing regulations: 40 C.F.R. 68.65(d)(1)(iv), which requires owner or operators of facilities where a regulated substance is present in more than a threshold quantity ( Owners or Operators ) to include relief system design and the basis of the design as part of its compilation of process safety information; 40 C.F.R. ? 68.65(d)(2), which requires Owners or Operators to document that equipment complies with generally accepted good engineering practices, by failing to have audible alarms outside machinery room entrances; 40 C.F.R. 68.71(c), by failing to have complete records reflecting that employees were initially trained on operating a process; 40 C.F.R. 68.73(e), by failing to correct deficiencies in equipment identified in 2015 that were outside acceptable limits before further use or in a safe and timely manner; and 40 C.F.R. 68.81(e), by failing to establish a system to pro

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