On January 24, 2008, EPA issued to Belson a Finding of Violation (FOV) pertaining to its scrap metal recycling facility in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The FOV alleged that Belson accepted for recycling automobiles and small appliances such as refrigerators and room air conditioners that contained or once contained ozone-depleting refrigerants, without either recovering the refrigerant from the vehicles and appliances or verifying that the refrigerant had been properly recovered prior to sale to Belson, in violation of regulations found at 40 CFR 82.156. The Consent Decree requires Belson to obtain refrigerant recovery equipment and to properly recover the refrigerant from vehicles and appliances it accepts for scrap recycling at its Bourbonnais facility. Belson's refrigerant recovery program is estimated to recover at least 120 lbs of ozone-depleting refrigerants per year. Since the refrigerants used in vehicle air conditioning systems and small appliances also are potent global-warming gases, these resolutions will, in addition to protecting the ozone layer, have the added benefit of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases equivalent to removing approximately 60 SUVs from the road for a year.