[CPEO-MEF] FUEL: Guam "DOD contractor that spilled jet fuel, contaminated water pays off fine"

[Lenny Siegel]

DOD contractor that spilled jet fuel, contaminated water pays off fine

By Chris Barnett
KUAM News (GU)
May 3, 2019

The Guam Environmental Protection Agency is about to close the book on a DOD contractor that spilled jet fuel and contaminated water, forcing the removal of tons of soil in 2017. The federal contractor is worth billions, but the local agency reduced its fineto a virtual slap on the wrist. 

Federal contractor NOVA UCCo has paid that fine - $70,000 from the Guam EPA's Hazardous Waste Management Program, $10,000 from the agency's Solid Waste Management program. NOVA also was forced to pay $19,500 after the company didn't meet a timeline for a supplemental environmental project and the value of that project was converted to a cash fine.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kuam.com/story/40411064/2019/05/Friday/dod-contractor-that-spilled-jet-fuel-contaminated-water-pays-off-fine

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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