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MISSOURI MAN SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE
Release Date: 04/02/99
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1999
MISSOURI MAN SENTENCED FOR ILLEGAL
HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE
HAZARDOUS WASTE STORAGE
Billy L. Stevens was sentenced to one year and one day in prison on March 25 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The defendant was co-owner and president of RS Services Inc., which operates in Kansas City as Mizzou Painting and Special Coatings. From approximately April 1996 until 1998, the defendant stored petroleum based wastes, chlorinated compounds, and spent solvents at the Mizzou facility without a permit. Human exposure to sufficient amounts of these substances can produce a variety of illnesses including respiratory ailments and eye irritation. The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division and National Enforcement Investigations Center, and was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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