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state of Louisiana had started re-
questing help from entities like the
port, Dobson said.
According to the letter from
Hauser, about 700,000 tons of haz-
ardous materials were at the site,
from about 6,000 different locations,
including the port of Shelton. MSP
argued that .4395 tons was shipped
from the port, Hauser states in the
letter.
Since the port itself does not pro-
duce or use any hazardous materi-
als, port employees concluded that it
must have come from an old tenant,
Dobson said.
"I said, take a look at this, is there
something here?" he said. "That's
when we started opening up the can
of worms."
Port employees traced the ship-
ment back to a now-defunct compa-
ny called Certified Aerospace, which
was a tenant at the Port of Shelton
when the hazardous chemicals were
sent to Louisiana.
"The original company that
they're looking for is no longer here,"
Dobson said.
Certified Aerospace became
Olympic Tool, and part of it is now
Olympic Fabricators, Dobson said.
"So Olympic Fabricators (then
Certified Aerospace) had some ma-
terial, small quantities of it but they
had some material that they creat-
ed. They hired a company to pack-
age it up and ship it ... to this dis-
posal company," he said.
MSP manifests show that two
separate shipments of hazardous
chemicals originated at the Port
of Shelton in 1992. The shipments
were in February and August of
1992 and included non-halogenated
solvents and methyl ethyl ketone.
MSP didn't properly destroy this
waste, Dobson said.
"They weren't even destroying it,
they were just destroying the land
with it," he said. "My understanding
is that they were overwhelmed and
were just not doing the job, period."
Dobson said that because the port
has determined that they are not le-
gally bound to pay the $4,000 fine,
they would not pay the fine.
"The intent is good and it's well
founded," Dobson said. "But well
wait a minute why should we pay
it? We have no legal responsibility
... All we're really saying is that we
need to put the blame where it be-
longs."
Dobson said that some entities,
like the port, might choose to pay
the $4,000 rather than expend the
time and energy to prove that they
are not legally responsible for the
material and the fine.
"Sooner or later that $4,000 starts
to look real cheap," Dobson said.
The port has responded to MSP,
and has offered to help connect them
with the current incarnations of Cer-
tified Aerospace, and their insurers,
Dobson said.
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