
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, April 6, 1990                   TAG: 9004060454
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A11   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ROCHESTER, N.Y.                                LENGTH: Short

KODAK POLLUTION FINE TOPS $2 MILLION

Eastman Kodak Co. was fined $2.15 million in criminal and civil penalties on Thursday for violating New York's environmental laws.

The photographic giant pleaded guilty in Rochester City Court to two misdemeanor violations for illegally disposing of hazardous waste and failing to report the spill of a toxic solvent until five days after it was discovered.

The $1 million criminal fine is the largest ever assessed by New York in an environmental case and among the largest in the nation, said state Attorney General Robert Abrams.

Assistant state Attorney General Paul McCarthy said Kodak illegally contracted with an unauthorized company to dispose of nearly 50,000 pounds of silver-contaminated soil in 1986; it was fined $997,500 for that violation - double the profit it made from the contract, he said.

The other fine, of $2,500, involved a 1987 spill of more than 5,000 gallons of a toxic solvent at one of Kodak's tank farms. - Associated Press

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