Superfund & Hazardous Waste - In all likelihood, BKBH has more experience in dealing with state and federal superfund laws than any other law firm in Montana. The firm has represented clients at more than fifty sites which involve diesel fuel and petroleum products, wood treating substances, mine tailings, and landfills. The firm represents a variety of clients from major corporations at large sites such as the Butte-Silver Bow/Clark Fork National Superfund Site, which is the largest superfund site in the nation, to small individual land owners whose property has become contaminated by the actions of others. Of the nine federal superfund sites in Montana, BKBH represents clients at three of them. While many of the sites are of lesser size, the firm has represented a client involved in a site where the remediation of which is in excess of $40,000,000. We have extensive experience in negotiating consent decrees/settlements and voluntary cleanups with agencies and other potentially responsible parties (PRPs), in the drafting of administrative orders on consent, and in the settlement of lawsuits filed by state and federal agencies and other PRPs. The firm has experience in the use of institutional controls including controlled ground water areas, zoning, restrictive covenants, and environmental easements. When clients' problems are not capable of being resolved through the standard process, BKBH has used modification to the State's environmental laws and regulations to successfully address a client's problem.
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