AQMD hits gasoline chain with month's largest pollution fine.AQMD AQMD Air Quality Management District AQMD Action Quake Map Depot hits gasoline chain with month's largest pollution fine Prestige Stations Inc., a gasoline-station chain based in Cerritos, paid regional air quality officials $65,000 to cover an assortment of pollution violations - the largest settlement by a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County firm in September. The South Coast Air Quality Management District The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), formed in 1976, is the air pollution agency responsible mainly for regulating stationary sources of air pollution for most of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside County, and all of Orange county. , which complies a monthly list of top settlements, said Prestige paid the settlement for failure to properly maintain vapor-recovery equipment and for failure to pay permit fees at its gas stations between January 1989 and July 1990. Thrifty Oil Co. in Downey made the second highest settlement to AQMD in September. It paid air regulators $42,000 because it also didn't properly maintain its vapor recovery Vapor (or vapour) recovery is the process of recovering the vapors of gasoline or other fuels, so that they do not escape into the atmosphere. This is often done (or required by law) at filling stations, in order to reduce noxious and potentially explosive fumes and devices, and also failed to document calibrations at its gas pumps. The violations occurred between October 1989 and last May. Toyota Auto Body, a Long Beach truck assembly plant, paid AQMD $16,000 to settle two violations issued in June and September of last year for causing a public nuisance public nuisance n. a nuisance which affects numerous members of the public or the public at large, as distinguished from a nuisance which only does harm to a neighbor or a few private individuals. by releasing paint odors into the air. As part of its settlement, Toyota agreed to make $5.58 million in repairs and improvements by February 1991 to its facility, a move expected to reduce hydrocarbon emissions by more than 42 tons a year. A Hawthorne firm that manufacturers metal doors and frames, Security Metal Products Corp., came in at No. 4 on the top settlement list for September. It paid $8,000 to settle violations relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc its illegal use of spray paints between October and November 1988. The top September settlement from a Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, company was $75,000 paid by Fleetwood Motor Homes of California Inc. and its Riverside-based parent company, Fleetwood Homes of California. The motor-homes manufacturer settled three violations, dating back to between April and December 1988, for exceeding coating limits on its use of spray paints and for failure to install a vapor recovery system on gasoline equipment. |
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