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tru -- General Produce Company fined $30,900 for reporting violations

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:58:01
Diesel exhaust creates 70% of the airborne carcinogens in
California's air. 

Release 09-115
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 22, 2009
	  	  	
Dimitri Stanich
916-322-2825
www.arb.ca.gov

General Produce Company fined $30,900 for reporting violations

SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board fined General
Produce Company $30,900 last month for reporting violations
during 2006 at its Sacramento, Calif. facility.

General Produce failed to submit a one-time report for their
transportation refrigeration units at their facility, as required
by law. TRUs are refrigeration systems that are powered by diesel
engines that control the environment of temperature-sensitive
products in refrigerated trucks, trailers, railcars and shipping
containers.

"Companies that fail to submit the reports required in this and
other diesel fleet regulations set the stage for further
non-compliance and continued production of harmful emissions;
they also create an unfair advantage over compliant companies,"
said ARB Enforcement Chief James Ryden.

Facilities with 20 or more cold storage loading docks are
required to monitor, keep records and report activities that
create emissions from diesel-powered refrigeration units mounted
on trucks, trailers, shipping containers and rail cars. These
activities take place during the loading and unloading of
perishables goods at distribution centers around the state.

General Produce paid $30,900 in penalties: $23,175 went to the
California Air Pollution Control Fund for projects and research
to improve California's air quality. The remaining $7,725 went to
participating Community Colleges through out the state to fund
emissions education classes.

Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and over 40
other known cancer-causing compounds. In 1998, California
identified diesel particulate matter as a toxic air contaminant
based on its potential to cause cancer, premature death and other
health problems.

The Air Resources Board is a department of the California
Environmental Protection Agency. ARB's mission is to promote and
protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through
effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and
considering effects on the economy. The ARB oversees all air
pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain
health based air quality standards.

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