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 Hawai�i 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.