[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Former Toastmaster site, Macon, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 7
November 23, 2015

Settlement with EPA to Address TCE Contamination at Former Toastmaster Manufacturing Facility in Macon, Mo.


(Lenexa, Kan.) - EPA Region 7 has reached a settlement with the current and former owners of the Toastmaster small appliance manufacturing facility in Macon, Mo., to address trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination on and around the property.

Spectrum Brands, Inc., the successor corporation to Toastmaster, Inc.; and Compton’s LLC, which purchased the 10-acre facility in June 2012 and currently operates a retail outlet business in its main building, will be responsible for taking a series of actions at the site, according to an administrative settlement agreement and order on consent, filed by EPA in Lenexa, Kan.

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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/EE735AEDF230FDA285257F06005DEC5E

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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