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On Monday, December 16, 2024, Chiquita plans to perform service on various pieces of equipment, which may result in downtime of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer and Flares 2 and 3, as described in more detail below. This work will not require the Zeeco thermal oxidizer or Flares 2 or 3 to be down at the same time. Due to these downtimes, there is a possibility of increased odors in the community during the indicated time periods.

• Chiquita plans to perform service on a detonation arrestor, which may result in the downtime of the Zeeco thermal oxidizer from approximately 8:00am to 11:00am, for a total duration of up to 3 hours.
• Chiquita then plans to perform service on a flame arrestor, which may result in the downtime of Flare 2 from approximately 12:00pm to 2:00pm, for a total duration of up to 2 hours.
• Chiquita thereafter plans to perform service on combustion blower filter elements, which may result in the downtime of Flare 3 from approximately 2:00pm to 4:00pm, for a total duration of up to 2 hours.

Under the new Condition 81 of the August 27, 2024 Modified Stipulated Order for Abatement in Case No. 6177-4, Chiquita Canyon, LLC (Chiquita) is required to notify the community (i) if any individual control device has downtime which is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for an individual control device reaches 30 minutes of downtime or (ii) if the downtime of any combination of landfill gas collection equipment results or is planned to result in a reduction of gas flow to control devices by 10% or more and the downtime is anticipated to last 30 minutes or more or once any downtime for such devices reach 30 minutes of downtime.

Chiquita continues to work to diligently comply with regulator orders.