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Executive Air Terminal, owner punished for storing hazardous waste

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Executive Air Terminal, previously based at Charleston’s Yeager Airport, and the company’s owner and president are being punished for storing hazardous waste without a proper permit which is a felony offense.

This week in Charleston U.S. District Court, Executive Air was fined $20,000 and placed on corporate probation for three years, according to Mike Stuart, the U.S. attorney for West Virginia’s Southern District.

President Brian Scott Miller was sentenced to 60 days behind bars and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

“Special agents found numerous containers filled with hazardous waste materials including oil, aviation gas and jet fuel,” said Jennifer Lynn, special agent in charge for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Enforcement Program in West Virginia, in a statement.

“EPA and its law enforcement partners are committed to protection local communities by holding accountable those who disregard the harm they pose to public health and the environment.”

Executive Air had provided fueling and other services for private and commercial aircraft at Yeager Airport.

In May, both Miller and his company entered guilty pleas to criminal charges and, after that, Yeager terminated its lease with Executive Air as a fixed base operator for the airport.

By Sept. 2015, investigators said Executive Air had accumulated 37 drums of waste fluid containing a mix of oil, aviation gas and jet fuel of which 27 were considered hazardous under federal law.

Executive Air did not have the federally-required permit to store that amount of hazardous waste, according to officials.

Miller has admitted to directing employees to move the drums of waste material to a farm outside Charleston in the middle of the night in Sept. 2015 instead of hiring a licensed hazardous waste hauler.

The drums were later moved to the Charleston building where EPA investigators said they found them in November 2015.





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