NorthWestern Reaches Montana Superfund Settlement

Date: June 14, 2004

Source: News Room

NorthWestern Corp. (www.northwestern.com) will pay $11.4 million toward the cleanup of the Superfund site at Milltown Reservoir near Missoula, Mont. The decision now allows the state and federal governments to negotiate a settlement between NorthWestern, Atlantic Richfield Co. (www.arco.com), and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (www.cskt.org). About 6.6 million cubic yards of contaminated mine tailings that washed into the Clark Fork River from mining and smelting operations in Butte and Anaconda is now resting behind a dam at the reservoir.

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