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TENNESSEE COMPANY, TWO OFFICIALS SENTENCED FOR WASTE VIOLATION
Release Date: 07/27/2001
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2001
TENNESSEE COMPANY, TWO OFFICIALS SENTENCED
FOR WASTE VIOLATION
Luke C. Hester 202-564-7818 / hester.luke@epa.gov
FOR WASTE VIOLATION
Luke C. Hester 202-564-7818 / hester.luke@epa.gov
On July 13, Simpson Construction Company of Cleveland, Tenn., Claude S. Simpson, Simpson Construction’s President, and Ralph E. Hicks, company foreman, were sentenced for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Simpson Construction and Claude Simpson were ordered to pay $867,320.83 in fines and in support of environmental improvement projects. Simpson Construction specializes in the construction of roads and bridges. The defendants illegally burned hazardous solvent and paint wastes in a pit at the company’s facility. The case was investigated by a task force composed of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division and regional staff, the FBI, the Tennessee Valley Authority Office of Inspector General, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Bradley County Sheriff’s Department, the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Criminal Investigation Division, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Department of Environment and Conservation. It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Knoxville (865-545-4167).
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