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PLYMOUTH COMPANY FACES ENVIRONMENTAL FINE

Release Date: 03/06/1997
Contact Information: Alice Kaufman, EPA Press Office, (617) 918-1064

Boston - The New England office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed a case against Mija Industries of Plymouth, Massachusetts, proposing a penalty of $57,814 for failing to report its use of certain chemicals.

EPA inspected the facility in August of 1996 and found that the company had failed to timely submit required documentation to EPA on its use of 1,1,1 trichloroethane and trichloroethylene. Violations were noted in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995.

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