# FOSTER DAIRY FARMS
> **Judicial** · FY1999 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53073`
- **Case Number:** 09-1999-0010
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $225K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- FOSTER DAIRY FARMS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS IS A JUDICIAL ACTION IN WHICH EPA SEEKS PENALTIES       AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AGAINST FOSTER DAIRY FARMS FOR         VIOLATIONS OF EPCRA AND ITS REGULATIONS. FOSTER DAIRY        FARMS OWNS SEVERAL DAIRY FACILITIES IN THE FRESNO AND        MODESTO AREAS OF CALIFORNIA. THESE FACILITIES RELEASE        A NUMBER OF TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY CHEMICALS, INCLUDING     AMMONIA, NITRIC ACID, AND PHOSPHORIC ACID. THESE CHEMICALS   OCCUR IN QUANTITIES ABOVE THE REPORTING THRESHOLD LIMITS.    ALTHOUGH FOSTER FARMS HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS COMMERCIAL      OPERATION FOR MANY YEARS, NO FOSTER FARMS FACILITY HAD       EVER FILED AN EPCRA FORM R UNTIL AFTER EPA BEGAN ITS         INVESTIGATION IN 1997.

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