The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined an Oregon landowner $23,704 for improperly handling asbestos on the property. The property owner complained that the DEQ should not have been fined because the company hired to demolish buildings on the property has already been fined $17,400 a few months earlier for performing the asbestos removal improperly and without being licensed to do the work. The DEQ officials who issued the fines said that both fines normally would have been issued together, but trips out of the office delayed issuance of penalty against the landowner. Because a licensed asbestos abatement company already had been hired to clean up contamination at the site, the delay in issuing the fine against the landowner caused no risk of harm.
An Oregon landowner has been fined $23,704 for asbestos violations
06
Feb
2008
