CONTINGENCIES	12 Months Ended
Jan. 02, 2021
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14. CONTINGENCIES	14. CONTINGENCIES The Company is party to various legal proceedings from time to time related to its normal business operations. Currently, the Company is not involved in any legal proceedings. In 2016, the Company created a plan to remediate a landfill of spent foundry sand maintained at the Company’s metal casting facility in New York. This plan was agreed to by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “NYSDEC”) on March 27, 2018. Based on estimates provided by the Company’s environmental engineers, the anticipated cost to remediate and monitor the landfill was $430,000. The Company accrued for and expensed the entire $430,000 in the first quarter of 2018 and fiscal 2017. In the Fall of 2018, detailed construction drawings were prepared by an outside consultant in conjunction with informal progress reviews by the NYSDEC. Long-term groundwater monitoring commenced in April 2019. Verbal approval for the closure plan was received from the NYSDEC in May 2019. Written approval was received in October of 2020. Construction of the closure remedies, including improved drainage system, regrading, and installation of a low permeability cap, is anticipated in May 2021. In the third fiscal quarter of 2021, following the completion of construction work, a closure report and maintenance plan is expected to be prepared for the NYSDEC. This closure report and maintenance plan documents the work done and requests acknowledgment of satisfactory completion of the Order on Consent between Frazer and Jones, and the NYSDEC.

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12 Months Ended

Jan. 02, 2021

14. CONTINGENCIES

The Company is party to various legal proceedings from time to time related to its normal business operations. Currently, the Company is not involved in any legal proceedings.

In 2016, the Company created a plan to remediate a landfill of spent foundry sand maintained at the Company’s metal casting facility in New York. This plan was agreed to by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (the “NYSDEC”) on March 27, 2018. Based on estimates provided by the Company’s environmental engineers, the anticipated cost to remediate and monitor the landfill was $430,000. The Company accrued for and expensed the entire $430,000 in the first quarter of 2018 and fiscal 2017. In the Fall of 2018, detailed construction drawings were prepared by an outside consultant in conjunction with informal progress reviews by the NYSDEC. Long-term groundwater monitoring commenced in April 2019. Verbal approval for the closure plan was received from the NYSDEC in May 2019. Written approval was received in October of 2020. Construction of the closure remedies, including improved drainage system, regrading, and installation of a low permeability cap, is anticipated in May 2021. In the third fiscal quarter of 2021, following the completion of construction work, a closure report and maintenance plan is expected to be prepared for the NYSDEC. This closure report and maintenance plan documents the work done and requests acknowledgment of satisfactory completion of the Order on Consent between Frazer and Jones, and the NYSDEC.