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tru -- TRU Airborne Toxic Control Measure Faciltiy Reporting Requirements Enforced

Posted: 12 Aug 2008 13:54:34
The California Air Resources Board fined Clougherty
Packing/Farmer John, of Los Angeles, $63,300 last month for
failure to comply with diesel truck emission requirements. Clean
air regulations enforced. 

Release 08-73
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
	  	  	
Gennet Paauwe
(916)322-2990
www.arb.ca.gov

Clougherty Packing/Farmer John pays $63,300 in air pollution
penalties

Subsidiary of Hormel Foods failed to file transport
refrigeration facilities report on time,inspect diesel truck
fleet for excess emissions


SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board fined
Clougherty
Packing/Farmer John, of Los Angeles, $63,300 last month for
failure to comply with diesel truck emission requirements.

ARB inspectors found that Farmer John failed to file a one-time
report for its Vernon, Calif., distribution facility, violating
the Transport Refrigeration Unit facilities regulation.
Further,
the company failed to inspect its diesel truck fleet for excess
emissions in 2006 and 2007.

As a result of the penalty, Farmer John must:

    * Submit delinquent transport refrigeration facility
reports;
    * Ensure that staff responsible for compliance with the
diesel truck emission inspection program attend diesel
education
courses and provide certificates of completion within one year;
    * Instruct vehicle operators to comply with the state's
idling regulations;
    * Complete heavy-duty diesel engine software and control
technology upgrades in compliance with regulations;
    * Supply all smoke inspection records to ARB for the next
four years; and
    * Properly label engines to ensure compliance with the
engine emissions certification program regulations. 

Facilities with 20 or more cold storage loading docks are
required to monitor, keep records and report activities that
create emissions, including diesel-powered refrigeration units
mounted on trucks, trailers, shipping containers and rail cars.
These activities take place during the loading and unloading of
perishables goods at distribution centers around the state.

Annual diesel trucks inspections are designed to make sure that
California emissions standards are met. Failing to conduct
these
inspections can lead to an increase of toxic diesel particulate
matter and smog-forming nitrogen oxides into the air.

The California Air Pollution Control Fund, established to
mitigate various sources of pollution through education and the
advancement and use of cleaner technology, will receive $47,475
and the Peralta Community College District will get $15,825
from
Farmer John to fund diesel education courses at five community
college campuses around the state.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote
and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources
through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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