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Article: RESER'S FINE FOODS, TO PAY CIVIL PENALTY FOR FAILING TO TIMELY REPORT AMMONIA LEAK TO EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTERS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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KANSAS CITY, Kan., Sept. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following press release:
The owner of a Topeka, Kan., food processing plant has agreed to pay a $13,460 civil penalty to the United States for failing to make timely notifications to local, state and federal emergency response authorities about an accidental leak of anhydrous ammonia at the plant in December 2007.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, Ore., has also agreed to purchase $22,679 worth of emergency response equipment for the Topeka Fire Department, as part of a settlement agreement filed today in Kansas City, Kan.
On December 19, 2007, a 1,500-pound release of anhydrous ammonia ...