LYONS – An international cement manufacturing company has agreed to pay $1.5 million for air pollution control violations, state officials announced.
The penalty stems from the CEMEX cement manufacturing plant in Lyons, which was cited for failing to comply with numerous air quality permit conditions from 2004 to 2006, officials with the Air Pollution Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said.
Of the total settlement, $950,000 will be dedicated toward supplemental environmental projects to improve environmental performance at the facility or to otherwise benefit the community, health and environment officials said.
The settlement also requires that a cash penalty be paid, that ambient air quality monitors be installed at the facility and imposes a moratorium on the burning of tires as a fuel source for the facility through 2007, the news release said.
“This is one of the largest enforcement matters the Air Pollution Control Division has ever completed and reflects the significant nature of CEMEX’s violations,” said Paul Tourangeau, incoming director of the Air Pollution Control Division in the release.
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Beauprez plans move to Democratic turf
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez plans to move back to his former home in Lafayette in the Democratic stronghold of Boulder County.
Beauprez moved to Arvada before he was elected to Congress from Colorado’s 7th District in 2002.
He and his wife, Claudia, plan to move back into the home they own in Lafayette next month, when his second term expires.
The house is in a subdivision on land his family once farmed.
“We’re going to come home,” he said in an interview published in Tuesday’s Longmont Daily Times-Call.
Beauprez gave up his seat in Congress to run for governor but was defeated by Democrat Bill Ritter.
He would not rule out a future run for elected office.
The northwest New Mexico communities of Farmington, Aztec and Bloomfield hope to get funds from the upcoming session of the Legislature to finance several capital outlay projects next year.
Farmington officials will seek at least $1.6 million for water projects, $750,000 toward a regional animal shelter and $450,000 for upgrades to the city’s traffic control system.
Aztec needs $1 million to build a third reservoir to increase the quality of the city’s water, $500,000 for improvements on the city’s main street and $500,000 for a pedestrian bridge.
Bloomfield’s list includes $500,000 to build a second diversion point and reservoir for its water system, $500,000 to expand its fire department and police-court buildings, and $300,000 for other water projects.
