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newsrel -- Beverage distributor fined $116,400 for air quality violations

Posted: 27 Aug 2014 14:39:00
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board: http://bit.ly/YXEuQj
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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 27, 2014

NEWS RELEASE 14-64

CONTACT:

Karen Caesar
(916) 322-2990
kcaesar@arb.ca.gov


Beverage distributor fined $116,400 for air quality violations

DBI Beverage Inc. failed to monitor fleet as required by state
law 

SACRAMENTO- The Air Resources Board has fined DBI Beverage Inc.
$116,400 for failure to comply with California air quality
regulations.

A routine investigation by ARB’s Enforcement Division documented
that DBI Beverage Inc. failed to properly self-inspect its diesel
trucks in 2011 and 2012 as required by ARB’s Periodic Smoke
Inspection Program to insure they met state smoke emission
standards.

In addition, the company failed to properly affix Emission
Control Labels on the engines of their fleet vehicles and to
report all required information for all vehicles in the fleet, as
required by the Statewide Truck and Bus Regulation for fleets
electing to utilize the “phase-in” option to clean up their
vehicles.

“While DBI Beverage Inc. did violate California’s air quality
regulations, the company does not have a history of past
violations, and its representatives were fully cooperative,” said
ARB Enforcement Chief Jim Ryden. “It benefits all of us who live
and work in California when air pollution rules are observed and
enforced. DBI Beverage Inc. accepted responsibility for its
actions and will be taking the necessary steps to ensure that its
fleet complies with the state’s air quality regulations.”  

The Tennessee-based company is a beverage distributor operating
185 heavy-duty diesel trucks, and is the corporate parent of
companies operating eight distributorships in California.

DBI Beverage Inc. paid $87,300.00 to the California Air Pollution
Control Fund, which provides funding for projects and research to
improve California's air quality, and $29,100.00 to the Peralta
Colleges Foundation to fund diesel education classes conducted by
participating California community colleges under the California
Council for Diesel Education and Technology Program. 

Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and more than
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.


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