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E.D. Pennsylvania 15-412
E.D. Pennsylvania 15-358
E.D. Pennsylvania 15-413
E.D. Pennsylvania 15-595
E.D. Pennsylvania 15-595
Matthew Brozena and his company, MAB Environmental Services, Inc., contracted to operate wastewater treatment plants for its customers, BC Natural Chicken and Buckingham Valley Nursing Center, in compliance with permits issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to those facilities. The permits allowed BC Natural and Buckingham to discharge from their wastewater treatment plants into nearby waters under specified conditions. The permit conditions included that the operators of the wastewater treatment plants properly operate and maintain the wastewater treatment plants. The permits also required that the operators test samples of the discharge from the plants for certain pollutants and report the samples and test results to the PADEP. The permits set limits for the amount of each pollutant that each facility was allowed to discharge.
Brozena directed his employees at MAB, including James Wetzel and Stephen Fritz, to discard samples when Brozena believed that the pollutants in the samples would exceed the permit limits. At Brozena’s direction, Wetzel, James Crafton, Fritz, and other MAB employees falsely reported samples and test results.
Matthew Brozena was sentenced to three years probation, six months home confinement, and a criminal fine of $100,000. As part of special conditions, Brozena must publish an article in a trade journal, describing his misconduct, and cannot sign as an authorized agent or principal any document to the government as it pertains to wastewater operations.
Brozena’s company, MAB, was sentenced to five years probation and a fine of $50,000.
- Clean Water Act (CWA)