NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility pays 50K fine

NASA’sWallops Island Flight Facility has agreed to pay 50,000 dollars to settle allegations of improper waste handling at the space flight center.

According to officials at Wallops, findings from the Environmental Protection Agency largely involved labeling issues on small containers during a July 2013 inspection.

Jeremy Eggers, an official at the Wallops Island Flight Facility, says most of the findings were corrected the same day they were identified. They were all reportedly closed out within two weeks of the inspection date.

In a statement sent to 47ABC, Eggers says “NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility is proud of its commitment to and record of environmental excellence as one of only a handful of federal facilities in the Commonwealth of Virginia earning the Extraordinary Environmental Enterprise (E4) level of recognition for the Virginia Environmental Excellence Program (VEEP).”