Environmental Matters in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

On May 6, 2008, U.S. EPA reached an $80,080 settlement with a Reno, Nev. company for its failure to submit required toxic chemical reports, a violation of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.  Electronic Evolution Technologies failed to submit timely, complete, and correct reports detailing the amounts of lead processed at its facility from 2002 through 2005.  Federal inspectors discovered the four violations as a result of a routine inspection in April 2007 and a follow-up investigation.   U.S. EPA’s community right-to-know laws require facilities processing, manufacturing, or otherwise using more than 100 pounds of lead to report releases of this highly toxic chemical on an annual basis to the EPA and the state. Although Electronic Evolution Technologies exceeded these thresholds from 2002 through 2005, it failed to submit reports to the agency for any of those years.