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Article: Three steps to property cleanup. (includes related article)
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 Alaska Business Publishing Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Is your property polluted? If so, here's what you can do to clean it up.
Times have changed, and nobody knows that better than property owners trying to comply with today's complex environmental laws.
For example, on hot summer afternoons decades ago, business owners sprinkled oil around their property to keep the dust down. Junkyard dealers smashed up batteries in their backyards to retrieve valuable lead. For the sake of convenience, manufacturers occasionally dumped or buried small quantities of waste materials on their industrial sites.
You don't dare try those practices today. A maze of federal, state and local environmental laws enacted from the ...