J.R. Simplot Company - Executive Summary |
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Introduction J.R. Simplot Company's Grand Forks facility is part of the Simplot Food Group. The Grand Forks facility processes raw potatoes into frozen french fries and other frozen potato products. The Simplot Food Group turns out two billion pounds of frozen french fries and other frozen potato products per year at five facilities in the U.S. The frozen potato products are predominantly for the food service industry. Potato processing requires raw potatoes to be cleaned, peeled, cut to size, blanched, dried, fried, frozen, packaged and then placed in frozen storage. The cooling system uses anhydrous ammonia as the refrigerant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations 40 CFR Part 68, require facilities that have regulated substances above the listed threshold quantities to develop a formal Risk Management Program. EPA also requires these facilities to register and submit a Risk Management Plan to EPA using RMP*Submitd by June 21 , 1999. The J.R. Simplot Grand Forks plant maintains quantities of anhydrous ammonia above the RMP threshold quantity of 10,000 pounds and as such is subject to the requirements of Program 3 in 40 CFR. |