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The Daejeon City Special Judicial Police conducted a planned investigation to crack down on environmental pollution, and this crackdown was conducted with an intensive inspection of facilities emitting bad odors and air pollution.
Daejeon City Special Judicial Police announced on the 7th that they conducted a planned investigation targeting local odor-emitting facilities and air pollutant-emitting facilities in July and August and discovered four businesses that violated environmental laws.
Looking at the violations, one company was caught installing and operating an odor emission facility but failing to report it to the competent authority, and two companies emitting air pollutants were caught failing to self-measure air pollutants. The remaining site was found to have taken no measures to suppress the generation of fugitive dust, such as piling up soil and sand generated during the building extension construction process without a dustproof cover.
Daejeon City's special envoy plans to forward the caught companies to the prosecution and notify the competent authorities of violations that require administrative action.

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