The Environmental Protection Agency settled with Roberts Hawaii and Love’s Bakery Inc. — in two separate cases for failing to submit complete annual chemical inventories.

In addition to correcting the violations, Roberts Hawaii, a bus and tour services company, will pay three $2,000 penalties for its Hawaiçi facilities located in Honolulu, Kailua and Keaau. Love’s Bakery, located in Honolulu, will also pay a $2,000 penalty and will also correct the violation.
“Both Roberts Hawaii and Love’s Bakery violated laws that protect and inform communities near facilities that use hazardous substances and other chemicals,” said Daniel Meer, the EPA’s assistant Superfund director for the Pacific Southwest region. The companies violated the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
“We will take action against any company that fails to follow these laws that protect emergency responders and the public in the event of an accidental release,” he said.
Meer said both companies failed to submit annual chemical inventory information to local emergency planners. The regulations require a company that stores at any one time during the year an Occupational Safety & Health Administration hazardous chemical or an extremely hazardous substance at levels above reportable quantities to submit yearly a listing of those chemicals. In the case of Roberts Hawaii the substance was diesel, and for Love’s bakery it was propane.
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know-Act requires all facilities using hazardous substances above specified quantities to provide annual chemical inventory information to local emergency planners for inclusion in the community emergency plan.