Swift to pay $1.3 million fine for clean water violations
Swift Beef Co. will pay $1.3 million to settle violations of the federal Clean Water Act and state law at its processing plant in Nebraska, officials said.
The agreement to pay the penalty is in addition to the company having spent more than $1 million at its Grand Island, Neb., facility to implement measures to reduce pollutants in its wastewater as required by its discharge permits, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday in a release.