Wisconsin Department of Justice
P.O. Box 7857
Madison, WI 53707-7857

PEG LAUTENSCHLAGER
ATTORNEY GENERAL

Information Contact:
Deirdre Morgan 608/266-7876

Madison, WI – October 25, 2004
Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice has settled an environmental enforcement lawsuit in Columbia County against TIG, Ltd., and Converters / PrePress, Inc., located in Columbus, Wisconsin. TIG will pay $4,500 in forfeitures, surcharges, and costs for hazardous waste violations.

The case was brought for past hazardous waste violations at 210 Commercial Drive in Columbus. Converters / PrePress operates an electroplating business there, and TIG owns the underlying real property.

?Spent stripping waste and spent copper plating solution, which are both hazardous wastes, were unlawfully stored at the Commercial Drive plant in Columbus,? Lautenschlager said. ?No one had a license to store that hazardous waste there. The spent stripping waste and spent copper plating solution have now been disposed of lawfully.?

Columbia County Circuit Court Judge Daniel S. George approved the settlement. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources referred the case to the Attorney General’s Office. Assistant Attorney General Philip Peterson represented the state.