A large food manufacturer has received one of the largest, if not the largest, settlement agreement with EPA regarding their Risk Management Plans at 23 facilties in four (4) states. The total fines in the agreement consist of $3.9 million in civil and over $300,000 in supplemental environmental projects (SEP) that involves buying emergency response equipment for eight (8) fire departments local to several of the facilities. This agreement came about because of a number of significant reportable releases of anhydrous ammonia, which included one fatality and several injuries across all of these facilities. Here is a break down of the incidents that led up to this agreement…