Thursday, September 23, 2010
Beckley Man Sentenced
WEST VIRGINIA....
Christopher Shawn Mills of Beckley was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release Thursday after pleading guilty in June 2010 to illegally storing hazardous waste without a permit. Mills admitted he stored chrome plating waste materials, including sulfuric acid and chromic acid, he knew was hazardous. on site at Mills Plating Shop from 2004 through 2006. In 2006, when the shop moved to Harper Road, the waste materials were stored in open containers and vats and abandoned at the Beckley location. Mills was also ordered to pay part of the cleanup cost of $133,819.12, the amount determined by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.
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