# MILBANK ALFALFA PRODUCTS, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1985 · — · Withdrawn by Region/State
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47758`
- **Case Number:** 08-1985-0022
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Withdrawn by Region/State
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MILBANK ALFALFA PRODUCTS, INC.
## Summary

MILBANK ALFALFA PRODUCTS, INC.  OWNS AN ALFALFA         PROCESSING PLANT APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE WEST OF MECKLING,    S.  D.  SOUTH DAKOTA SIP REGULATION ARSD 74:26:03:05         PROHIBITS ANYPERSON OPERATING AN ALFALFA PELLETIZING OR      DEHYDRATING FACILITY FROM DISCHARGING INTO THE AMBIENT AIR   ANY AIR CONTAMINANT OF A SHADE OR DENSITY EQUAL TO OR OF     A SHADE OR DENSITY EQUAL TO OR DARKER THAN ... THIRTY        PERCENT OPACITY.                                                  TWO VIOLATIONS WERE OBSERVED BY S.  D.  DEPT. OF ENVIR. PROTECTION,                                                               JANUARY 20, 1983 - 41% OF OPACITY                            OCTOBER 3, 1983  - 55% OF OPACITY.                   REGION 8 ISSUED A SECTION 120 NON ON 06-11-84.               ON FEBRUARY 28, 1985, MIKE RISNER OF REGION 8 SENT EPA  HQ A SAMPLE CONSENT AGREEMENT WHICH HE PROPOSED WOULD        ADEQUATELY SETTLE ALL FIVE OF THE REGION 8 ALFALFA CASE:     JENSEN BROTHERS, NATIONAL ALFALFA, SIOUX ALFALFA, BARNES     HAY AND FEED, AND MILBANK ALFALFA.  HQ RESPONDED AT THE END  OF MARCH, 1985, STATING THAT THERE WERE ONLY TWO EXPLICIT    WAYS OF SETTLING A SECT.  120 PROCEEDING SHORT OF OBTAINING  THE FULL ECONOMIC BENEFIT PENALTY, EITHER THROUGH WITHDRAWL  OR MODIFICATION OF NON BECAUSE THE SOURCE IS NOT IN          VIOLATION OR IS ENTITLED TO AN EXCEPTION UNDER 40 C.  F.  R. SECTIONS 66.31-66.33.  HQ RESPONDED THAT THE PROPOSED        CONSENT AGREEMENT WAS INADEQUATE.        

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