EPA to submit proposed order in Taitano case
The Guam Environmental Protection Agency is continuing efforts to go after a man accused of illegally dumping on his property in Yigo.
November 15, 2014Updated: November 15, 2014
By KUAM News
By KUAM News by Ken Quintanilla
Guam - The Guam Environmental Protection Agency is continuing efforts to go after a man accused of illegally dumping on his property in Yigo.
Joseph Taitano was accused of running an illegal dump operation on his land and was cited by Guam EPA over a decade ago. The case has been in and out of superior court, however according to Guam EPA administrator Eric Palacios, movement is being made by the Attorney General's Office in the case and over the next few days a proposed order will be submitted to the judge. "Once we have done that we're going to move as expeditiously as we can to collect whatever we can of the $7.5 million judgment, and what this process also means is that Mr. Taitano's 30-day window to appeal will officially open," he said.
Taitano and wife Rosalind Castro operated an illegal dump on their property in Yigo and must pay $3.6 million in penalties in addition to $250,000 in restitution for what the government expended to extinguish a blaze when the dump caught fire back in 2010.
Guam - The Guam Environmental Protection Agency is continuing efforts to go after a man accused of illegally dumping on his property in Yigo.
Joseph Taitano was accused of running an illegal dump operation on his land and was cited by Guam EPA over a decade ago. The case has been in and out of superior court, however according to Guam EPA administrator Eric Palacios, movement is being made by the Attorney General's Office in the case and over the next few days a proposed order will be submitted to the judge. "Once we have done that we're going to move as expeditiously as we can to collect whatever we can of the $7.5 million judgment, and what this process also means is that Mr. Taitano's 30-day window to appeal will officially open," he said.
Taitano and wife Rosalind Castro operated an illegal dump on their property in Yigo and must pay $3.6 million in penalties in addition to $250,000 in restitution for what the government expended to extinguish a blaze when the dump caught fire back in 2010.