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Massachusetts Company Agrees to Pay $28,110 for PCB Violations
Release Date: 07/23/2008
Contact Information: Paula Ballentine (617) 918-1027
(Boston—July 23, 2008) Ludlow Industrial Realties, Inc. (LIR) of Ludlow, Massachusetts will pay a penalty of $28,110 and will spend at least $45,536 to perform a supplemental environmental project (SEP) to settle EPA claims that it violated federal polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) regulations.
The LIR facility was built in the early 1900s and is the former site of a twine and webbing mill that closed operations in the mid-1960s. The facility is made up of approximately 125 buildings located on roughly 79 acres of land. Since the closing of the mill, the facility has been operated as commercial rental property by several different corporations. LIR has owned the facility since 1992. Approximately 50% of the buildings at the facility are now occupied by tenant companies. Most of the facility’s current tenants are storage and distribution companies, although other tenants include cabinet makers, book binders, and aluminum-forming companies.
For the SEP, LIR will retrofill four PCB-containing electrical units at its site with non-PCB oil so that the transformers can be reclassified as non-PCB Transformers. A total of approximately 2,342 gallons of PCB transformer oil would be replaced by non-PCB oil in this project.
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