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Company failed to inspect their diesel vehicles and failed to
comply with the solid waste collection rule . NEWS RELEASE
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Air Resources Board

Release 09-04
January 13, 2010

CONTACT: Karen Caesar
(626) 575-6728
www.arb.ca.gov

San Bernardino County waste hauler fined $307,200 for emissions
violations

SACRAMENTO – The California Air Resources Board fined Burrtec
Waste Industries, Inc. $307,200 in November for emissions
violations during 2005 and 2006. 

An ARB investigation showed Burrtec Waste Industries, Inc.
located in Fontana, Calif., failed to properly inspect their
diesel vehicles. The company also failed to comply with the solid
waste collection vehicle rule by neglecting to retrofit some of
their diesel vehicles with the required emission-reduction
devices. 

"Trash haulers work hard to move waste out of our communities,
and they burn a lot of diesel fuel close to where people live and
work,” said ARB Chairman Mary D. Nichols. “That's why California
law requires that their engines be maintained and inspected to
keep pollution as low as possible."

As part of the settlement, Burrtec Waste Industries is required
to: 

•	Guarantee employees responsible for conducting the inspections
attend a California community college training class on diesel
emissions compliance testing and provide certificates of
completion within one year;
•	Provide documentation to ARB that the inspections are being
carried out for the next four years; 
•	Ensure all heavy-duty diesel vehicles have their software
updated with the latest low-NOx (oxides of nitrogen emissions)
programming; 
•	Instruct vehicle operators to comply with the state's idling
regulations; 
•	Retrofit the appropriate number of solid waste collection
vehicles with the best available control technology; 
•	Comply with all requirements applicable to solid waste
collection vehicles; and, 
•	Ensure all diesel truck engines are up to federal emissions
standards for the vehicle model year and are properly labeled
with an emissions control certification label. 

Burrtec Waste Industries, paid $307,200 in penalties: $230,400
went to the California Air Pollution Control Fund for projects
and research to improve California's air quality. The Peralta
Community College District received $76,800 to fund emissions
education classes at California community colleges throughout the
state. 

Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and over 40
other known cancer-causing substances. In 1998, California
identified diesel exhaust as a toxic air contaminant based on its
potential to cause cancer, premature death and other health
problems. New research links vehicle exhaust and lung cancer
mortality in trucking industry workers exposed to diesel and
other types of vehicle emissions with increasing years of work.

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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