SYRACUSE – A former Fulton County tannery owner was ordered to pay over $360,000 in restitution to the EPA on Friday, authorities said.
Robert Carville, 57, formerly of Johnstown, was ordered to pay $369,693.58 to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for its expenses incurred in removing hazardous waste that Carville stored without a permit at the former Carville National Leather Corporation building in Johnstown, authorities said.
The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Tyler Amon, Special Agent in Charge of the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New York.
Carville National Leather Corporation was a tannery business that operated in Johnstown from 1976 until it closed in September 2013. Robert Carville owned and operated the business for approximately 10 years prior to its closure, authorities said.
Carville pleaded guilty in December 2018 to one felony count of illegally storing hazardous waste without a permit. As part of his guilty plea, Carville admitted that as the owner and manager of the tannery, he was responsible for the materials stored there when it ceased operations, authorities said. Following the closure of the business, Carville moved out of state, leaving hundreds of containers of hazardous chemicals inside the abandoned tannery building, authorities said. Some of these were labeled as “corrosive,” “acidic,” and “hazardous,” authorities said. Carville did not have a permit to store hazardous materials, authorities said, and chemicals began leaking from the tannery building approximately two years after Carville abandoned it. EPA deemed the tannery a Superfund site and incurred expenses in cleaning up and removing the chemicals, authorities said.
On July 22, a judge sentenced Carville to serve a two-year term of probation. However, the court deferred until Friday a determination on any restitution Carville owed EPA as part of the sentence. The parties presented evidence and testimony at a hearing in December. After reviewing that evidence and considering legal briefs filed by the parties, a judge Friday issued an order directing Carville, as part of his sentence, to pay $369,693.58 in restitution to EPA.
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