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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Abide Farms, LLC (“Abide”) entered into a February 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See LIS No. 25-010.
The CAO provides that Abide owns and operates an air curtain incinerator (“Incinerator”) in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Abide is stated to operate the Incinerator pursuant to General Air Permit for Title V Air Curtain Incinerators (“Permit”).
DEQ personnel are stated to have conducted a compliance inspection of the facility on October 17, 2023. The inspection is stated to have covered the reporting period of September 2022 through October 2023.
DEQ personnel are stated to have observed Abide burning trade waste inside the Incinerator (wood and vegetation) without the Incinerator in operation. This is stated to violate Specific Condition 6 and General Provision 10 of the Permit.
Abide neither admits nor denies the factual and legal allegations contained in the CAO.
A civil penalty of $1,200.00 is assessed.
A copy of the CAO can be downloaded here.
