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  • ConAgra to pay for violations

    08/30/2005 8:04:26 AM PDT · by Rakkasan1 · 5 replies · 326+ views
    Pioneer Press ^ | 8-30-05 | SHANNON PRATHER
    ConAgra Foods is expected to plead guilty this week to violating the federal Clean Water Act for not reporting warm water discharges from its Hastings flour mill near the Vermillion River, a trophy trout stream. The Department of Justice this month accused the Omaha-based food producer of failing to report and maintain records about the temperature of water it discharged into the Vermillion, a tributary of the Mississippi River. Under a plea agreement reached earlier this month, ConAgra will pay a $138,513 fine and will donate an additional $110,000 to the National Park Foundation and the Friends of the Mississippi...