Standard-Times Staff
NEW BEDFORD In a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Northern Pelagic Group, also known as Norpel, has agreed to pay a $220,000 penalty to settle EPA’s claims that the company violated federal laws.
The federal Clean Air Act has chemical accident prevention requirements and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act requires hazardous chemical reporting.
The EPA alleged the company, which maintains a significant amount of ammonia at its New Bedford seafood processing facility, failed to file a risk management plan with the agency a few years ago. Such plans are required for facilities that manage, maintain or produce hazardous chemicals in order to ensure public safety.
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EPA alleged that the violations occurred during the transport of dredged material from New Bedford Harbor in Mass. to the Rhode Island Sound Disposal Site (RISDS). On one occasion, a disposal vessel operated as part of the project dumped its load of dredged material 2.6 miles outside the authorized disposal site and on three separate occasions, dumped it in the wrong locations within the RISDS. The company s noncompliance was verified in part by the electronic monitoring devices onboard the disposal vessels. The company was cooperative with EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) during the enforcement investigation and case settlement negotiations and has committed to making changes in its operations to ensure compliance with MPRSA in the future.
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Under a recent settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co., LLC, based in Quincy, Mass., will pay a penalty of $185,000 for alleged violations of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA, also known as the Ocean Dumping Act).
EPA alleged that the violations occurred during the transport of dredged material from New Bedford Harbor in Mass. to the Rhode Island Sound Disposal Site (RISDS).
On one occasion, a disposal vessel operated as part of the project dumped its load of dredged material 2.6 miles outside the authorized disposal site and on three separate occasions, dumped it in the wrong locations within the RISDS.