# OREGON POTATO COMPANY APO/CAFO (R5 Lead)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2021 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602839057`
- **Case Number:** 05-2021-5054
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- OREGON POTATO COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

Region 5 is finalizing a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) commencing and concluding an action under Section 205(c)(1) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. ? 7524(c), Oregon Potato Company (OPC) in Pasco, Washington. OPC is an agricultural company that grows and sells crops for consumption and other uses. OPC?s crops are harvested and transported by Greenridge Farming, Inc. (GRF), a company under identical ownership that owns and operates farm equipment and heavy-duty diesel engine (HDDE) trucks.

Region 5 alleged that, in violation of Sections 203(a)(3)(B) of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. ? 7522(a)(3)(B), OPC sold parts or components intended for use with, or as part of, a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine, where a principal effect of the part or component was to bypass, defeat or render inoperative devices and elements of design that control emission on heavy-duty diesel-engine trucks. OPC sold these parts exclusively to GRF for use on its HDDE trucks.

In the CAFO, OPC certified that it is now in compliance with the CAA mobile source provisions. OPC will return to compliance any vehicles and engines that it owns or operates; and permanently destroy or return to the manufacturer settings all defeat devices in its inventory and/or possession.

Based on analysis of the factors specified in Section 205(c) of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. ? 7524(c), consideration of the EPA Mobile Source Civil Penalty Policy, and the facts of this case, the Region determined that an appropriate civ

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