The Missouri Department of Environmental Resources (DNR) and the St. Louis-headquartered smelting and mining company Doe Run have agreed that the company will pay a $1.2 million fine and take corrective steps to bring its secondary lead smelter in Boss, Missouri, into compliance. According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the DNR cited Doe Run after state inspectors documented dozens of clean air violations over several years at Doe Run's Iron County lead battery recycling center.
Under the agreement, Doe Run will make three payments over a three-year period. The company made the first payment of $400,000 recently.
The agreement between the DNR and Doe Run also stipulates that the company must take corrective action over the next four years to bring its secondary lead smelter into compliance and lays out a schedule by which to do so.
Doe Run agreed not to contest DNR’s findings, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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