The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mercy Health System of NWA (“Mercy”) entered into a July 7th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Arkansas air regulation. See LIS No. 21-065.
The CAO provides that Mercy owns and operates a medical complex (“Facility”) in Benton County, Arkansas.
The Facility is stated to have been issued an air permit (2130-A)(“Permit”).
DEQ personnel are stated to have performed a compliance inspection of the Facility on October 7, 2020. Such inspection is stated to have covered the reporting period of January 2019 through September 2020.