Marine Shale reaches agreement with US Department of Justice

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1989 · Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:6684248

Marine Shale Processors, Inc., and the U.S. Department of Justice on July 24 reached an accord that ended a three-year investigation into allegations by Marine Shale competitors of corporate wrongdoing. Under the agreement, Marine Shale agreed to one violation of each of three statutes: the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Refuse Act of 1899, and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899. To bring the three years of uncertainty to an end, Marine Shale also agreed to pay a fine of $1 million. Since 1985 Marine Shale has operated a facility in Amelia, Louisiana, that recycles materials that would otherwise be disposed of as hazardous wastes into an inert aggregate material used in road building and other construction applications. The government's only allegations were (1) that Marine Shale stored soil containing creosole on a concrete pad at its recycling facility without a federal permit (Marine Shale has halted use of this storage facility and all of the soils were subsequently removed and recycled at the plant); (2) that Marine Shale created an obstacle to navigation by the placement of a barge in a river; and (3) that Marine Shale had allowed finished product and process area water to wash into the river during rainstorms. These practices or conditions have been discontinued or corrected.

• OSTI ID: 6684248
• Journal Information: Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association; (USA), Journal Name: Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association; (USA) Vol. 39:9; ISSN JAWAE
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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