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TWO IN MISSISSIPPI SENTENCED FOR DUMPING HAZARDOUS WASTE
Release Date: 02/12/99
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1999
TWO IN MISSISSIPPI SENTENCED FOR DUMPING HAZARDOUS WASTE
Insulation Foam and Roofing Inc., (IFR) of Jackson, Miss., and a former employee, David Aultman who is also from Jackson, were sentenced on Feb. 5, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in Hattiesburg for illegally transporting and disposing of hazardous wastes in violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. IFR and Aultman were ordered to pay $29,914 in restitution for cleanup costs and Aultman was also sentenced to six months confinement. IFR and Aultman were convicted of transporting drums of hazardous waste without a permit and illegally dumping them on property owned by Aultman in Jefferson Davis County between September 1994 and September 1995. Hazardous substances contained in the drums included xylene and methyl ethyl ketone. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, the Department of Transportation Inspector General’s Office, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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