U.S. v. POLLUTION ABATEMENT SERVICES OF OSWEGO, INC.

No. 1281, Docket 85-6005.

763 F.2d 133 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. POLLUTION ABATEMENT SERVICES OF OSWEGO, INC., H. Willard Pierce and Jack Miller, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 3, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard H. Amdursky, Oswego, N.Y., for defendants-appellants Pierce and Miller.

Maria A. Iizuka, Washington, D.C., (F. Henry Habicht II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., Craig A. Benedict, Asst. U.S. Atty., Syracuse, N.Y., Robert L. Klarquist, Elizabeth Yu, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Eric Schaff, Environmental Protection Agency, New York City, Elizabeth Cox, Ephriam King, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and MISHLER, District Judge.


IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

BACKGROUND

Pollution Abatement Services of Oswego, Inc. ("PAS") operated an industrial waste disposal service in Oswego, New York. The PAS site was located on the banks of Wine Creek, which flows into Lake Ontario. H. Willard Pierce, the President of the firm, and Jack Miller, its Vice-President, ran the company's day-to-day operations and were two of only four shareholders.

In 1977, the United States brought an...

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