Legal Opinion
State Department of Environmental Protection v. Allied Scrap Processors, Inc.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 11, 1998No. 97-4905PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BARFIELD, Chief Judge.
In an action to collect the costs" of treating contamination at the site of a former battery processing operation, the tiial court entered summary judgment against the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and in favor of appellees, “generators” of hazardous waste under the Water Quality Assurance Act of 1983 (WQAA), chapter 83-310, Laws of Florida. The trial court’s ruling was premised upon the parties’ acknowledgment that the battery processing facility had ceased all operations in 1980, prior to passage of the WQAA, and upon his conclusion that the applicable…
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