The Environmental Protection Agency and New Cingular Wireless reached an...
The Environmental Protection Agency and New Cingular Wireless reached an administrative settlement resolving alleged reporting, planning and permitting violations at 332 legacy AT&T Wireless (AWS) sites that New Cingular now owns. New Cingular agreed to pay a $750,000 civil penalty…
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and commit $625,000 to environmental projects to resolve the violations, the EPA said Monday. The alleged violations, which occurred at AWS sites in 43 states, included “failure to comply with Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting requirements related to the presence of sulfuric acid and diesel fuel at sites, inadequate or no Clean Water Act (CWA) Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans, and Clean Air Act (CAA) minor source permitting requirements,” the EPA said. New Cingular will provide certification of EPCRA compliance at 1,356 sites, do CAA audits at 1,361 sites and CWA audits at 41 sites, the EPA said. New Cingular also agreed to pay penalties for all disclosed and corrected violations found through the audits, the EPA said (http://xrl.us/bn9tbj).