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Good news for AIPN about St. Marks Refinery

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/3729626.htm

Posted on Thu, Jul. 25, 2002

Tallahassee briefs: Judge allows refinery lawsuit to stand

Circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls on Wednesday denied the state's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the St. Marks Refinery Inc., an attorney for the company said. The refinery sued earlier this year claiming that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection was illegally trying to hold it responsible for cleaning up petroleum contamination at the closed refinery site in St. Marks. The state last month launched a new cleanup of the site, which has widespread petroleum contamination dating back to at least the 1980s and high dioxin levels in some areas. The company, which bought the site in 1992, says the DEP in April illegally denied its use of a dock on the St. Marks River. The company would use the dock to reopen the site to distribute asphalt. DEP officials said they were denying the lease to focus the company's attention on the cleanup. The department will have 21 days to respond to the lawsuit once Sauls issues his ruling, said Gary Early, an attorney for the refinery. A DEP attorney who is handling the case could not be reached for comment.

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