EPA Clears Vrebr-Hoff
Conveniently, just when the trouble starts, the company is able to prove to the EPA that it does not own the diary anymore:
On Jan. 4, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced it had issued an administrative order to comply with a state-issued discharge permit to Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development, Wauseon, Ohio, and De Jong Dairy LLC, Fremont, Ind. Vreba-Hoff has since provided documents to EPA demonstrating that it has transferred ownership of the dairy. EPA has sent a letter to Vreba-Hoff notifying the company that it is not responsible for complying with the EPA order. Dairy operator Simon De Jong has told EPA that he intends to comply with the order.
I don’t know what is more troubling here: The fact that a major company was able to shift responsibility for an allegedly polluting dairy off to some dude, or the fact that the regulators are so clueless as to who is in charge of such a major operation that it takes them over 25 days after a public announcement to figure out that someone else is responsible.
January 30th, 2007 20:24
I cannot believe the non-sense on this site. Read carefully the allegations from EPA. ” all though there could have been a discharge… there was not ” I have personally done excavation work on many of these sites and I can tell you Mr DeJong has been writing the checks on this one for atleast a yr and I know the IDEM expansion plans and permit are in his name. I have a copy in my truck now. Sorry you read it the way you want and I guess EPA is way behind too ! Wake UP AMERICA ! bet ya will not print this one will you ?