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PA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSPORTER SENTENCED
Release Date: 09/12/97
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1997
HAZARDOUS WASTE TRANSPORTER SENTENCED
Syvalia Satterfield, Silver Spring, Md., and Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced to 10 months community confinement, four years probation, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on Sept. 8. He was convicted was for storing hazardous dry cleaning waste at unpermitted facilities in Maryland and the District of Columbia. The defendant was also ordered to pay $1,468 in clean up costs and $1,000 as partial payment for representation by a public defender. Satterfield operated a hazardous waste transporting business known as Growth Enterprises Inc., which he falsely represented to be a licensed transporter of hazardous waste. In 1995, Satterfield took spent dry cleaning solvent (tetrachloroethylene) and transported it without a license to be stored in a public storage facility in Silver Spring, Md., the balcony of Satterfield’s apartment building overlooking the Capitol Beltway, and the backyard of an associate’s home in the District of Columbia. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the EPA Region 3 Field Inspection Program, the FBI, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Maryland State Police.
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