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Company: General Recycling of Washington LLC
Penalty: $360,000
Year: 2024
Date: March 12, 2024
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: The Elliott Bay Trustees announced a settlement with General Recycling of Washington LLC and its affiliates--Nucor Steel Seattle Inc. and the David J. Joseph Company-- related to natural resource injuries caused by hazardous contaminants released into Seattle's Lower Duwamish River. The Elliott Bay Trustees include the United States, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); the Department of the Interior represented by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; the State of Washington, on behalf of the Department of Ecology and Department of Fish and Wildlife; the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe; and the Suquamish Indian Tribe of the Port Madison Reservation. As part of the settlement, the companies will construct and maintain a habitat restoration project at the General Recycling facility, located on the west bank of the Lower Duwamish River. It will provide nearly three acres of off-channel habitat for fish and other wildlife and natural resources injured by contamination. This habitat will provide refuge areas and food sources for wildlife and various fish species, including juvenile salmon migrating from upriver spawning areas. The settlement also requires the companies to reimburse a proportion of costs incurred by the Trustees to assess natural resource damages in the river totaling more than $360,000.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration referral to the Justice Department
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Washington
Facility City: Seattle
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