U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 and Joyner's Die Casting & Plating, Inc., Brooklyn Park, Minn., recently reached agreement on hazardous waste violations. The company will pay a $20,000 fine and undertake an environmental project costing at least $100,000.
Joyner's will install and operate a system to eliminate about 230 pounds of copper, zinc, chrome and cyanide per year from the wastewater it discharges into the local sewerage system and treatment plant.
The company, which generates a large quantity of waste, was cited in April 2001 for failing to identify the contents of a certain container as hazardous. The company also failed to properly treat, store and dispose of hazardous waste, and to file a report with EPA and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on the transportation of hazardous waste to another site.
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