Copar agrees to settle EPA clean-air claims

BOSTON – Rhode Island-based Copar Quarries has agreed to settle claims that it violated federal clean air standards, the agency announced this month.
According to a complaint filed by by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s New England office, Copar failed to conduct the required emissions testing, keep proper inspection log books and notify EPA when it began operating several pieces of equipment in this quarry in 2011.
Copar agreed to pay $80,000 and correct the violations identified by EPA.
Copar, based in the village of Bradford in Charlestown, operates a portable stone-crushing and gravel-processing plant with several crushers and screeners. Copar’s facility operates on about 150 acres near residential properties.
With the capacity to crush more than 150 tons of stone per hour, Copar is subject to the federal standards established under the Clean Air Act for nonmetallic mineral processing operations. EPA asserted that the company violated these standards by failing to notify EPA when it started operations and by failing to conduct the required emissions testing.
Copar has since corrected the violations identified by EPA, which will help reduce Copar’s emissions in the surrounding community. •

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