EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling parties to pay $1,050,000 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the ACM Smelter and Refinery NPL site near Great Falls, Montana, and to perform a remedial investigation and feasibility study for portions of the site.

United States v. Airgas Carbonic, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-163 (S.D. Ga. Oct. 4, 2011). Seventy-three settling CERCLA parties responsible for violations at the Alternate Energy Resources, Inc., site in Augusta, Georgia, must perform remedial design and remedial action at the site; 797 other parties must pay a portion of the past and future response costs incurred by the United States and Georgia.

United States v. Newmont USA Ltd., No. 05-020-JLQ (E.D. Wash. Sept. 30, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Midnite Mine Superfund site on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Stevens County, Washington, must pay $18.7 million in U.S. response costs incurred at the site and must perform the EPA-selected cleanup for the site.