From Pennlive
LOGANTON A large family-owned meat processing business in Clinton County has reopened because, due to snow melt, food processing residuals (FPR) can again be spread on farm fields.
Nicholas Meat reopened fully on March 3, Jana McGuire, a spokesperson for the Loganton area company, said Wednesday.
The plant closed Feb. 23 after a state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a halt to the spread of FPRs on snow-covered fields.
The closing affected more than 350 employees and 150 contract workers.
Training was provided during the shutdown and employees were paid the entire time they were off work, McGuire said.
Nicholas maintains when the Environmental Hearing Board denied its appeal of DEP’s Feb. 9 compliance order it had no alternative but to shut down.