EPA Settles with Coventry Asphalt Company

A Coventry asphalt company will pay a $23,700 penalty to settle a claim by the Environmental Protection Agency that the company violated its air permit issued by the state Department of Environmental Management.

In a release, the EPA said T. Miozzi, Inc., which runs a hot mix asphalt plant at 75 Airport Road, will pay the claim and has agreed to maintain better records regarding the testing of emissions from plant.

The complaint stemmed from an April 2013 inspection by the EPA and the DEM that showed the company wasn’t maintaining proper records relating to the testing of emissions from a rotary drum burner used in the asphalt making process as well as the testing of equipment used to control emissions.

T. Miozzi “worked quickly to correct the violations cited by EPA, and cooperated with EPA in reaching a settlement,” the release stated.

The plant has been in operation since 2006.

The company’s air permit limits emissions of particulate matter, fugitive dust and other chemicals like nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

“Compliance with the permit helps reduce air pollution and protects air quality near the facility and in the surrounding community,” the EPA said.