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FISCAL YEAR: 2022
1. PRINCIPAL DEFENDANT: Lobar, Inc.
M.D. Pennsylvania 1:20-CR-00020
M.D. Pennsylvania 1:20-CR-00020
2. DEFENDANT: Ty Barnett
M.D. Pennsylvania 1:20-CR-00020
M.D. Pennsylvania 1:20-CR-00020
The Berwick Area School District (BASD) purchased a former weaving mill to demolish and build a new elementary school. BASD hired Lobar, Inc. as the general contractor. In February 2015, EPA received information regarding illegal asbestos removal activity at the Berwick facility. Inspectors observed a number of NESHAPs work practice violations on-site. Ty Barnett was the project supervisor for the asbestos abatement contractor, First Capital Insulation Inc., on the Berwick Area School District project in Berwick, Pennsylvania.
July 20, 2022
A court sentenced Lobar, Inc. to pay a $400,000 fine and complete a three-year term of probation, to include implementing an Environmental Compliance Health and Safety Program and Ethics Plan. The company will submit this plan to the probation office within nine months, and enact a procedure for employees to report environmental and other violations through a hotline. Lobar pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act (CAA).
CITATION: 42 U.S.C. 7413(c)(1)
September 27, 2022
Ty Barnett was sentenced to serve two years of probation.
CITATION: 42 U.S.C. 7413(c)(1)
STATUTE:
- Clean Air Act (CAA)