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Milwaukie Company Fined For Air-quality Violations

(Milwaukie, OR)  --  A Milwaukie company is being fined 72-hundred dollars, after the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality found that air-quality regulations were violated.  DEQ says Blount Incorporated was found to be exceeding its permit's limits for emitting chromium into the air.  Blount runs a chainsaw parts manufacturing plant on Southeast International Way in Milwaukie.  The company says it doesn't intend to appeal the penalty.
 

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