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Central Eureka Mine ca: ~1930s? CENTRAL EUREKA MINE SITE CERCLA CLEANUP AND COSTS RECOVERY Background: - 1850s to 1958: Historic operations of the Central Eureka Mine - 1970s to early 1990s: Residential developments around mine tailings

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Central Eureka Mine ca: ~1930s?

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CENTRAL EUREKA MINE SITE CERCLA CLEANUP AND COSTS RECOVERY

  • Background:
  • 1850s to 1958: Historic operations of the

Central Eureka Mine

  • 1970s to early 1990s: Residential developments

around mine tailings

  • 1994: California DTSC’s Preliminary Site

Assessment (PSA)

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U.S. EPA’S SITE ACTIONS 1994 – 2001

  • Soil testing; determine site boundaries
  • Develop Emergency Removal Plan (ERP)

and action memorandum

  • Identify and negotiate with PRPs in

cleanup participation

  • Implementation of ERP
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Mesa de Oro Residential Plan

LEGEND

PRP AlliedSignal PRP Kaplan/Nehemiah Numbered lots on which CET performed work

Clean Fill Staging Area

360 350

Central Eureka Mine

Bryson Drive Lot 14 195 185 175 115 370 360 350 340 330 320 310 300 290 280 270 275 325 335 345 355 365 14/16 18/20 1 13 114 Lot 5 Lot 2 70 100104 110 Lot 12 55/65 75/85 Lot 13 Lot 24

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SUMMARY OF U.S. EPA’S RESPONSE COSTS: CENTRAL EUREKA MINE SITE

Parameter Subtotal % U.S. EPA Payroll & Travel $230,021 5.36 U.S. Coast Guard – Strike Force 60,071 1.40 U.S DHS-ATSDR Health Studies 194,333 4.53 Emergency Removal Cleanup Contractor 2,338,182 54.49 Damaged Property Compensation 5,357 0.12 Technical Assist. Consult. – Ecology & Envir. 480,043 11.19 Records Management & Support Services 20,230 0.47 U.S. EPA Indirect Costs 962,857 22.44 Total Site Costs $4,291,087 100.00

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PRE-LITIGATION COSTS RECOVERY INITIATIVES 2004 – 2005

  • EPA’s demands on PRPs for

reimbursement of agency response costs

  • Pre-litigation settlement negotiations:

2004 – 2005

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SELECTED DEFENSES TO JOINT & SEVERAL LIABILITY FOR U.S. EPA’S CERCLA RESPONSE COSTS: CENTRAL EUREKA MINE SITE

  • Divisibility of site and environmental harm
  • Expiration of applicable statutes of limitations
  • Innocent landowner defense
  • Challenge EPA’s claimed costs:
  • not consistent with the National Contingency

Plan (NCP)

  • arbitrary, capricious, or not in accordance with

applicable law

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COSTS RECOVERY LITIGATION 2006 – 2008

  • United States v. Honeywell International

and Kaplan & Nehemiah

  • Kaplan’s defense and counterclaim on

Honeywell International

  • Kaplan’s third party complaint for

contribution v. 36 third party defendants

  • Settlements
  • Court Judgment in Kaplan v. Bruner on

liability and allocation