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PA VA. MAN CONVICTED OF FILING FALSE WATER SAMPLE REPORTS

Release Date: 09/07/96
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PA VA. MAN CONVICTED OF FILING FALSE WATER SAMPLE REPORTS

FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1996

VIRGINIA MAN CONVICTED OF FILING FALSE WATER SAMPLE REPORTS

On Sept. 5, Robert B. Gill, Vice President of Gill and Gill Environmental Services Inc. of Hopewell, Va., was sentenced in federal court in Norfolk, Va., to 30 days home confinement, three years probation, a $2,500 fine and $1815 in restitution for falsifying laboratory results on monitoring reports required by the Clean Water Act. Gill previously pleaded guilty on May 30, to one count of making a false statement on a discharge monitoring report (DMR) to the State of Virginia. The report concerned water discharges from schools in Isle of Wight County in eastern Virginia. During the investigation, Gill was unable to provide investigators with actual laboratory results for the data submitted on the DMR in question. This case was investigated under the auspices of the Norfolk Tidewater Environmental Task Force by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division and the FBI based upon a referral from the state of Virginia.

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