Asarco doesn't concede that any violation occurred, because it was a commercial chemical product and couldn't become a waste until it was discarded or the decision was made to discard it. |
Many of these remaining process locations likely will require demolition in order to meet the expected cleaning criteria. |
The building configurations make it very difficult to do the cleanup as both parties had originally envisioned. |
The court decides whether it (a claim) gets paid and if it's five cents on the dollar, or something like that. It depends on how they reorganize the company. |
We disagree with the interpretation by the state of Montana and don't think that penalty was deserved at all. Even so it would be subject to the same claims procedure as any other claims. |