LASKIN GREENHOUSE & WASTE OIL CO. - JEFFERSON, OH FILED 4/24/79, CIVIL ACTION #C79075 9V US DISCTICT CT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OH DEFENDANT ALVIN P LASKIN GROWS TOMATOES FOR COMMERICAL DISTRIBUTION IN HIS GREENHOUSE IN JEFFERSON. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT HE HAS ACCEPTED, STORED, & DISPOSED OF WASTE OIL BY BURNING, & BY APPLIC- ATION TO AREA ROADS UNDER CONTRACT W/ VARIOUS MUNICIPALI- TIES & CONTIES. LASKIN ACCEPTS APPROX. 800000 GAL OF WASTES PER YR, 200000 GAL OF WHICH ARE BURNED AS BOILER FUEL, & THE REMAINING 600000 WHICH ARE APPLIED TO THE ROADS. SAMPLING OF LASKIN'S STORAGE TANKS HAS REVEALED HIGH CONCENTRAT'N OF PCB'S IN THE WASTE OIL. LASKIN'S BOILERS DON'T MEET THE PCB REQUIREMNTS STIPLATED IN 40 C.F.R. PT. 761. THE INEFFICIENT BURNING OF PCB'S BY HIS BOILERS CAUSE THEM TO VOLATILIZE & BE TRANSPORTED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT. THE COMPLAINT ALLEGES THAT LASKIN ALSO DEWATERS & FILTERS WASTE OILS THAT HE HAS PREVIOUSLY MIXED AND THEREBY PRODUCES SLUDGES WHICH ARE DUMPED ON HIS PROPERTY. PCB'S & OTHER POLLUTANTS ARE THEN WASHED INTO THE DEFENDANT'S COLLECTION POND #20, & ARE DISCHARGED INTO CEMETERY CREEK, A US WATERWAY. DEFENDANT MADE APPLICAT'N IN JUL 978 FOR A NAT'L POLL UTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT, BUT IT HAS NOT YET BEEN ISSUED. THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN OCCURING AT LEAST SINCE EARLY 1977. A NO. OF WAS