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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Seaboard Foods LP and PIC USA Inc.
Current Parent Company: Seaboard Corp.
Penalty: $345,000
Year: 2006
Date: September 15, 2006
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Under two related settlements, Seaboard Foods LP and PIC USA Inc., agreed to take significant steps at many of their facilities to ensure future compliance with environmental laws and to resolve allegations that the companies contaminated groundwater and surface waters near several of their facilities. Under the first consent decree, Seaboard Foods and PIC USA agreed to pay a civil penalty of $240,000 for violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act dating back to 2001. In the second settlement, Seaboard agreed to pay a civil penalty of $205,000 for failure to comply with the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, and for failure to comply with the continuous release reporting requirements of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Payment of a $100,000 civil penalty by Seaboard in a separate Air Compliance Agreement with the EPA was to be credited toward this amount.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Environment and Natural Resources Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Kansas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: food products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: food products
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.