# HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `53998`
- **Case Number:** 10-1985-0003
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $5K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

HYGRADE FOOD PRODUCTS CORPORATION HAS OPERATED ITS MEAT    PACKING PLANT IN TACOMA, WASHINGTON IN VIOLATION OF THE      OPACITY LIMITATIONS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON SIP VIOLATING THE CLEAN AIR ACT UNDER SECTIONS 113 AND 110.  EVEN          THOUGH THE COMPANY HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY ADVISED SINCE 1981    OF THE NEED TO INSTALL CONTROL EQUIPMENT ON TWO OF THEIR     SMOKEHOUSES, THE COMPANY STILL LACKS SUCH EQUIPMENT,           ONLY AS A RESULT OF OUR INFORMING THE COMPANY THAT WE      INTEND TO REFER THIS MATTER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE     HAS THE COMPANY GIVEN SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO INSTALLING    CONTROL EQUIPMENT OR A NEW LIQUID SMOKE PROCESS, THEREBY     ELIMINATING SMOKE EMISSIONS ALTOGETHER.  PRESENTLY THERE     ARE NEGOTIATIONS TO SETTLE THIS MATTER BY MEANS OF A CONSENT DECREE, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE, IN PART, A SCHEDULE FOR         COMPLIANCE, FINES FOR PAST VIOLATIONS, AND STIPULATED        PENALTIES FOR FUTURE VIOLATIONS AND/OR VIOLATIONS OF         COMPLIANCE AS SCHEDULED.

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