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PRESIDENT OF OREGON COMPANY MUST PAY FOR CLEANUPFOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1998 PRESIDENT OF OREGON COMPANY MUST PAY FOR CLEANUP George E. Betts, president of Lam Pine Inc., of LaGrande, Ore., was sentenced on May 18, in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho in Boise to pay $163,177.34 in restitution to EPA’s Superfund program. The court also sentenced Betts to serve six months in prison. Betts had previously been convicted of being involved in the illegal transportation of more than 230 55-gallon drums of paint and solvent wastes to the North Point Milling (NPM) facility which he owned in Payette, Idaho. A total of 452 55-gallon drums of paint and solvent wastes were removed when the EPA Superfund program conducted a cleanup at the NPM facility in August 1996. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Idaho State Police, the Oregon State Police, the Idaho Division of Environmental Quality and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. R-69 ### Release date:05/22/98 Receive our News Releases Automatically by Email
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