U.S. EPA Region 5 issued an Administrative Consent Order (ACO) to Northern Metals LLC (NMR) to address violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA). On September 24, 2020, EPA issued to NMR a Finding of Violation (FOV) pertaining to its scrap metal recycling facility located at 1803 2nd Street, in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as to two other NMR facilities. The FOV alleged that NMR accepted for recycling small appliances such as refrigerators and room air conditioners that contained or once contained ozone-depleting and substitute refrigerants without either recovering the refrigerant from the items or verifying that the refrigerant had been properly recovered prior to delivery to NMR, in violation of regulations found at 40 CFR 82.155. The ACO requires NMR to develop a refrigerant management plan which will include proper refrigerant recovery from intact appliances and motor vehicles, verification of proper refrigerant recovery from such items that arrive at NMR's facility empty of refrigerant, notification to customers about proper refrigerant recovery, and documentation of compliance. NMR's refrigerant recovery program is estimated to recover approximately 180 lbs of ozone-depleting and substitute refrigerants per year.