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PA OIL SPILL NETS JAIL TERM FOR RAILROAD SUPERVISOR

FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1997


OIL SPILL NETS JAIL TERM FOR RAILROAD SUPERVISOR

On May 21, in Federal Court for the District of Alaska in Anchorage, Edward Hanousek, a railroad supervisor for the White Pass & Yukon Railroad, was sentenced to serve six months in prison, to also serve six months in a halfway house, and pay a $5,000 fine for his Clean Water Act conviction for the negligent discharge of oil from a company pipeline in October 1994. The discharge was the result of an accident which occurred during the illegal removal of rock from U.S. Forest Service land near the pipeline. Hanousek was supervising the removal. Paul Taylor, the former President of Pacific and Arctic Railway and Navigation Co., and Hanousek's supervisor is awaiting sentencing for his role in the offense. The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division.

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