Summary

In accordance with Section 309(g) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. § 1319(g), and the Consolidated Rules of Practice at 40 C.F.R. Part 22, notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement, recorded in a Consent Agreement and Final Order (Proposed CA/FO), between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 (EPA or Complainant), and Inventure Foods Inc., (Respondent) to resolve the following civil administrative penalty proceeding under Section 309(g).

On July 9, 2018, pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 22.13(b) and 22.18(b)(2) and (3), Complainant and Respondent entered into a Proposed CA/FO to simultaneously commence and conclude this CWA Class II civil administrative penalty proceeding. The Proposed CA/FO requires Respondent to pay the United States a penalty of seventy-nine thousand, nine hundred and fifty-seven (79,957) dollars. Payment of this penalty will resolve EPA’s allegations that Respondent violated CWA Section 307(d) on at least twenty-four (24) days by operating a snack food manufacturing facility in violation of effluent standards and pretreatment standards established under CWA Section 307(b).

In the Matter of Inventure Foods Inc.

Docket Number CWA-09-2018-0012

Complainant: Kathleen Johnson, Director, Enforcement Division, U.S. EPA, Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, California 94105.

Respondent: Inventure Foods Inc., 3500 South La Cometa, Goodyear, Arizona 85338.

Description of Business or Activity Conducted by the Respondent: Inventure Foods Inc., manufactures snack foods.

Summary of Alleged Violations: Inventure Foods discharged wastewater to the City of Goodyear’s publicly owned treatment works while in violation of pretreatment regulations promulgated under CWA Section 307(b). Inventure Foods failed to comply with pretreatment standards and local limits, specifically BOD, oil & grease, pH, and TSS.

Proposed Penalty: $79,957