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Credit Pacific Service Union The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking millions of dollars from more than 1,400 businesses and local governments for the cleanup of a hazardous waste site that contaminated Fort Lauderdale's water supplies.

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Credit First Service Union An oil recycling plant used to stand on the site in northeastern Davie, operated in such a sloppy manner that it soaked the ground with cancer-causing chemicals, according to the EPA. A chain link fence now surrounds the 1-acre field, with a sign reading "WARNING! Contaminated Area. Avoid Contact with Soil and Water."

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Card Credit Mobile Service EPA supervised a multimillion-dollar cleanup, and now the agency is trying to recoup its costs from the plant's customers, such as boat repair shops, city governments and car dealerships. Under the federal Superfund law, which covers the nation's worst hazardous waste sites, the generators of pollution can be forced to clean it up regardless of whether they did anything wrong.

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Credit Public Service Union "I have always done the right thing and disposed my waste oil in a proper and legal manner," said Rollin Stevens, owner of Stevens Marine Inc., a boat repair company in Boca Raton, who received a bill for $2,949. . "I have even accepted waste oil from friends to assure that it was disposed of properly and not simply poured into the ground. So this is what I get, a threatening letter from EPA that if I don't pay up by Jan. 31, I face even a bigger assessment. This is extortion!"

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Card Credit Processing Service Pat Ricci, owner of Diesel Mechanics Co-op Inc., a Pompano Beach boat repair company, found it bizarre that environmental regulators could keep a tight watch on his business while failing to stop a major polluter for so many years.

Center Credit Service Union "We've done everything in our power to be in compliance," said Ricci, who was billed for $3,200 for his share of the cleanup. "They're all over us to make sure our manifests are in order. We feel they should be held responsible because they permitted it to occur. The EPA is making it very difficult for the small businessman to be in business, and it's at its worst now."

Card Credit Service Wireless EPA officials acknowledged the unfairness of the law. They said they know these companies did nothing wrong. They said they can give breaks to companies that can prove they can't afford to pay. And they said the parties that pay up would at least receive protection from lawsuits. But they said someone must pay for the cleanup.

Credit Security Service Union "I don't like it. I feel bad for these people," said Valerie Nowell, an EPA lawyer dealing with the smaller parties involved with the site. "We have to pay to clean it up. And it's either going to be the taxpayers of America that bear the burden or the people that have a connection with the waste that contaminated the environment that bear the burden."

Credit Report Service The Florida Petroleum Reprocessors plant was recognized as an environmental disaster by the time it closed in 1992. Workers routinely spilled waste oil on the ground and kept contaminated water in an unlined earthen pit, according to state environmental officials. Environmental investigators detected the carcinogens vinyl chloride and perchloroethylene in the groundwater, spread over hundreds of acres. Fort Lauderdale was forced to shut down 10 nearby drinking-water wells.

Blogspot Com Christian After the plant's former owners claimed they didn't have enough money to clean it up, the EPA and the plant's largest customers cleaned up most of the contamination. The EPA spent at least $5.5 million. Under EPA's supervision, the larger customers such as U.S. Sugar Corp. and Exxon Mobil hauled out storage tanks, steel drums, 13,000 gallons of waste oil and 26,000 gallons of wastewater. Most of the rest of the remaining contamination will be allowed to dissipate naturally, a process expected to take about 15 years.

Christian Counseling Credit The agency is now trying to recoup what it spent from the plant's smaller customers, those that sent the plant fewer than 10,000 gallons of waste oil. Based on past experience, the agency expects to get about $4 million, about half the amount it's billing.

Credit Federal Service Union The federal Superfund program was created in 1980 after huge deposits of hazardous waste were discovered in Times Beach, Mo., and the Love Canal section of Niagara Falls, N.Y. In writing the Superfund law, Congress placed great emphasis on finding the money to clean up the sites. The law allows the government to go after any originators of pollution, whether or not they did anything wrong.

Credit Monitoring Service "Congress basically developed a statute that was heavily weighted toward the government," said Brad Jackson, EPA project manager for the Florida Petroleum Reprocessors site. "They wanted a way to quickly clean up these problems. This is basically geared toward enabling us to get to anybody involved in the process that has the resources to clean this up."

Credit Division Service EPA is also completing negotiations with 58 of the larger customers. These parties have already spent about $5.5 million to clean up the site, according to their attorney, Matt Conglianese. He is completing final negotiations for his clients to finance the cleanup of shallow and intermediate layers of groundwater, set up a monitoring system, and retain liability if any additional contamination turns up.

Card Credit Online Service The EPA is also negotiating with the Florida Department of Transportation, which owns the site of the former Starta's junk yard in Davie, where about 1,600 wrecked cars were once stored. Although the junkyard was paved over in the construction of Interstate 595, the EPA says it contributed to the groundwater contamination.

Consumer Counseling Credit Inc When Florida Petroleum Reprocessors ceased operations in 1992, it told state regulators it could not afford to continue cleaning up the site. George Gordon, the company's owner, could not be reached for comment. Barry Paul, who previously owned the plant, could not be reached, despite a phone call to his office in Georgia. Conglianese, the attorney for the larger customers, said that he has negotiated with Paul and that he appears willing to pay his share.

Card Credit Fleet Service Anyone who doesn't agree to pay, including owners, customers and waste transporters, is likely to get sued by the federal government, said Jackson of the EPA. Once deadlines pass and EPA knows which parties aren't cooperating, it will give their names to the Department of Justice.

Card Consolidation Credit "Once we get everything settled," Jackson said, "we'll be going after them."

Credit Free Online Report By David Fleshler
South Florida Sun-Sentinel - 1/16/2004

Topic: SuperFund

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