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PA. DEP takes legal action against generators.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (often abbreviated PA DEP, or just DEP) is state agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. See also
  • List of Pennsylvania state agencies
References
 (DEP DEP Deposit
DEP Deputy
DEP Department of Environmental Protection
DEP Dependent
DEP Departure
DEP Depot
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) has filed a Complaint In Equity in Columbia County Columbia County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
  • Columbia County, Arkansas
  • Columbia County, Florida
  • Columbia County, Georgia
  • Columbia County, New York
  • Columbia County, Oregon
  • Columbia County, Pennsylvania
 Court against 21 tire generators who have not acted to remove scrap tires taken from their businesses years ago to the Start tire pile in Greenwood Township Greenwood Township is a common placename in the United States:
  • Greenwood Township, Clare County, Michigan
  • Greenwood Township, Oceana County, Michigan
  • Greenwood Township, Oscoda County, Michigan
  • Greenwood Township, St.
, Columbia County.

The complaint asks the court to require each generator to remove its share of the scrap tires at the site and to assess a civil penalty of $100 per day against any generator who fails to comply with the court's order.

DEP was able to determine the names of some of the tire generators and the approximate number of tires taken to the Start property by reviewing old records kept by the Starr family, which owned the property.

Staff from DEP's Northcentral Regional Office have been working on individual legal agreements with tire generators since April, getting agreements from 10 generators to remove a total of 130,000 tires at the generators' expense. However, another 21 generators refused to cooperate, re suiting in DEP's legal action.

A legal agreement signed in March 2004 by DEP and the Starts granted the agency unrestricted access to the Start property and required the Starrs to pay a $400,000 civil penalty.

In addition, the DEP has launched a new Start Waste Tire Reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity.  Grant Program to help fund projects that will create markets for the tires.

The grant program will fund projects that create new products from used tires that are stockpiled in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York . The department is particularly interested in supporting proposals that are market-driven, create jobs and generate economic development within the state.

A complete list of the tire generators named in the DEP's legal action is available online at www.RecyclingToday.com.
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Title Annotation:Tires; Department of Environmental Protection
Comment:PA. DEP takes legal action against generators.(Tires)(Department of Environmental Protection)
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U2PA
Date:Mar 1, 2005
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