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Connecticut Pesticide Company Pays EPA Fine for Reporting Violations

Release Date: 07/31/2001
Contact Information: Mark Merchant, EPA Press Office (617) 918-1013

BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Hoffmann Water Technologies has paid a fine of $4,125 for failing to file its pesticide production report for the 2000 fiscal year on time.

The company, based in Southport, Conn., is a producer of pesticides and was required to submit the FY 2000 production report under the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act – or FIFRA – by March 1, 2001. Hoffmann was one of 2 companies out of 160 pesticide companies in New England that did not file its report.

In April, 2001, EPA contacted by phone a total of 18 pesticide producing establishments who had not submitted this report on or before the March 1 deadline. Of those 18 who were contacted, 16 submitted their reports to EPA immediately after the courtesy call.

EPA issued warning notices to those 16 delinquent establishments for submitting this report notably late. But receiving no report from Hoffman in response to that call, EPA filed an administrative penalty action on June 22, 2001. Hofmann did submit it's FY 2000 pesticide report in response to that action.

"The federal government regulates these material for a reason, and EPA considers the obligation to report pesticide production information important to the protection of public health and the environment, especially when it becomes necessary to take the more hazardous products off the market and out of the hands of end users," said Ira Leighton, EPA New England's acting regional administrator.

For more information on pesticides and the FIFRA program, go to EPA's Web site:
https://www.epa.gov/region1/programs/propesticides.html#pest