The Department of Environmental Conservation’s Compliance and Enforcement Division today announced that it formally settled an environmental violation involving Wright Brothers Recycling, Inc. The company operates a full service metal recycling and salvage yard in Newport, Vermont. The settlement includes an $8,000.00 penalty.
On July 11, 2014, Agency personnel inspected the property and determined the facility was operating as a salvage yard, noting junk motor vehicles, a car crusher, concrete pad, scrap metal, roll-off containers, fence, gate, and a sign advertising metal recycling. Under state law, a person must hold a Certificate of Registration issued by the Department to operate, establish, or maintain a salvage yard. A Certificate may only be issued to a salvage yard that holds a Certificate of Approved Location issued by the municipality in which the salvage yard is located. The company had been operating the salvage yard since 2012 and had not obtained a Certificate of Registration. On July 14, 2014, the Agency sent the company a Notice of Alleged Violation containing instructions to come into compliance with applicable salvage yard law. On July 22, 2014, it obtained a Certificate of Registration.
The company was notified of the violation and agreed to settle the matter. The settlement was reduced to an Assurance of Discontinuance, and adopted as an order by the Environmental Court. In it, Wright Brothers Recycling, Inc. agreed to pay an $8,000.00 penalty and comply with its Certificate of Registration in the operation of its salvage yard.
Source: Department of Environmental Conservation. 5.12.2015