T

he 2001 National Notable Achievement Awards Ceremony was held in

Arlington, Virginia, on April 25,

2001, recognizing outstanding achievements in the Superfund, Superfund

United States

Environmental Protection 

Agency

Office of Site Remediation 

Enforcement (2271A)

Washington, DC 20460

Summer 2001

EPA 300-N-01-007

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Brownfields: 4

Shenandoah, VA 

In the Courts: 6

Ilco

Findett

Libby Asbestos

Vertac

Chem-Nuclear

Accounts Receivable 7

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Cleanup News is a quarterly

newsletter highlighting 

hazardous waste cleanup

cases, policies, settlements,

and technologies. 

Brownfields Legislation Passes the Senate

On April 25, 2001, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously (99-0) in favor of brownfields legislation.

The bill, S.350, amends CERCLA to promote the cleanup and reuse of brownfields, provide

financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and enhance state response programs.

President Bush commended the Senate for its “bipartisan approach to this important environmental reform,” noting that “environmental reforms must set high standards and get results.”

EPA Administrator Christine Whitman called the vote “very exciting news,” and stated: “S.350

encourages brownfields redevelopment by clarifying Superfund liability and funding brownfields cleanups that will make our communities safer and cleaner. This bill reflects the Bush

Administration’s belief that environmental protection and economic prosperity do go hand in

hand. The vote is an overwhelming endorsement of brownfields programs that: strengthen

partnerships among states and local community groups and developers; improve public

health; boost local property tax rolls and provide jobs. I look forward to working with the House

to earn its bipartisan endorsement of brownfields legislation.”

continued on page 2

Enforcement, and RCRA Corrective

Action programs. This year an additional

component, Regional Science, was

included in the awards for innovative and

outstanding contributions to the science

of hazardous waste management including the area of risk assessment. 

In her welcoming remarks, Administrator Christine Todd Whitman noted: “It

is fitting that we meet during Earth Week

to recognize those regional staffers who

are out there in the field every day making a real difference in the lives and health

and countless Americans.” She also commented on the “leadership, creativity, and

hard work of EPA Regional and HQ staff

and our State partners in implementing

the RCRA cleanup reforms. Whitman

quipped, “As I looked over the list of
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today’s winners, I couldn’t help but

think that maybe I don’t have the

toughest job at EPA after all... even

though there are times we have

messes to clean up, they’re nothing

like the messes you find out in the

field!” Whitman expressed the

Agency’s appreciation to the award

winners: 

“I know from first-hand experience how hard your job is and how

important you are to the people

whose communities you are restoring to environmental health. Your

jobs are rarely easy. When it comes

to cleaning up a contaminated site,

those who live nearby think it can

never be done fast or cheaply

enough. We would think the same

thing if we were in their shoes.

But we also know that the work

you do has to be done right – and

that rarely allows for quick, cheap

fixes. By doing it right, however,

you are making sure that the

health of the people you serve is

protected based on the best possible science and technology available, in the most efficient and

effective manner. Your commitment to excellence has earned a

real sense of pride, not just in yourselves, but in all of us who have the

honor to work with you.”

Since its inception in the late 1980s,

the National Notable Achievement

Awards program has expanded to recognize the growing emphasis on teamwork, to reflect changes in the Superfund program, and to include the

entire hazardous waste management

family. All 10 EPA Regions participate

in the Awards program. A total of 123

nominations were submitted for the 22

awards presented. Recipients were

recognized with plaques and monetary awards.

Achievement Awards 

continued from page 1

Superfund Legal Enforcer of the Year 

Arthur Haubenstock, Region 9

Arthur Haubenstock is this year’s recipient of the Legal Enforcer

of the Year, awarded for his work in crafting the largest and most

complex brownfields agreement in EPA history. The Operating

Industries, Inc. (OII) Site, a 190-acre landfill in Monterey Park, California, disposed of over 300 million gallons of liquid industrial

wastes and a large amount of municipal waste, and posed a

threat of leachate migration, landfill gas emissions, and groundwater contamination. The landfill, now closed, is bisected by the

Pomona Freeway into a North Parcel, which has significant

potential for productive future use, and a South Parcel. Haubenstock’s OII settlement resolved a number of parties’ liabilities

while utilizing many innovative administrative reforms.

Haubenstock determined that the OII owner/operator was not

able to contribute its “fair share” of the settlement, and that its

most significant asset was the property itself, so he established

that conveyance of the parcel combined with a cash payment to

the custodial trust account was the most equitable resolution of

liability. The settlement also resolved the liability of generator

PRPs for the North Parcel by committing the generator group to

create a custodial trust, hold title to the landfill property, and agree

to do additional response activities on both the North and South

Parcels. They will also perform the operation and maintenance of

the landfill cap to be implemented by the developer/prospective

purchaser. Funds from the custodial account may be used for

remediation of the South Parcel, which the generator PRPs have

agreed to undertake under prior consent decrees. 

Haubenstock also came up with a creative solution to resolve

the liability of one of the de minimis generator PRPs, Goodwill

Industries, by allowing Goodwill to staff an on-site repository for

15 months – equivalent in value of labor to the amount necessary

to settle its liability. Goodwill will also be able to provide employment training in information services. 

Haubenstock’s tireless efforts in weaving together a myriad of

issues, mediating disputes, and finding creative solutions to

potential deal-stopping problems resulted in a settlement that

was not only beneficial to the Agency and the environment, but

was lauded by all the parties and local governments as well.

Superfund Outstanding Achievement 

Lauren Volpini, Region 9 

Lauren Volpini, a bilingual member of EPA Region 9’s Chemical

Emergency Prevention and Preparedness Team, received the Outstanding Achievement Award for her work on the U.S./Mexico

Border Emergency Planning program, which has significantly

increased chemical safety along Region 9’s border with Mexico.

Until Volpini stepped in, Region 9 had a relatively limited relationship with the numerous emergency planning and response

stakeholders in the border area. Volpini demonstrated how the

U.S./Mexico border area poses unique and potentially catastrophic risks to the residents, fragile environments, high risk

businesses, tourism, and commercial rail and truck traffic.

In less than one year, Volpini’s work resulted in the mayors of

the four Sister Cities signing the first Binational Emergency Prevention and Response Agreement and establishing cross-border

emergency planning committees. She successfully negotiated

these agreements in two languages, with diverse U.S. and Mexico

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counterparts at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels. 

Volpini assumed overall responsibility for plan research and

development, accurate language translation of numerous bilingual drafts, plan production and distribution, and formal ceremonial arrangements involving transborder customs and immigration issues. To launch the agreements and plans, she coordinated

well attended, high profile binational ceremonies, which required

sensitive Customs and Immigration arrangements and protocols

that respected cultural differences and expectations. The successful ceremonies were captured by numerous print, radio, and

televised accounts and interviews. 

Volpini also obtained end-of-year unspent monies provided to

Region 9 by the Office of International Activities and drafted three

individual grant proposals for the Arizona border cities of Douglas, Nogales, and San Luis, including the purchase and loan of

emergency communications equipment to the grantees’ respective Mexican counterparts. Volpini obtained additional funding to

deliver a variety of bilingual emergency response training and

hazmat exercise design courses. She even found a way to provide scholarships to cover registration, travel, and per diems for

12 border emergency responders to attend California’s weeklong hazmat training conference. As a result of Volpini’s efforts,

EPA and Mexico agreed to collaborate to identify and characterize border tire piles and take measures to prevent tire fires. Public meetings were held to provide outreach to community participants and leaders from both sides of the border. 

Superfund Awards

Superfund Remedial Project Manager of the Year:

D. Mark Doolan, Region 7

Superfund On-Scene Coordinator of the Year:

Tien Nguyen, Region 8

Superfund Community Involvement 

Coordinator of the Year:

Ann C. Rychlenski, Region 2

Superfund Site Assessment Manager 

of the Year:

Monica R. Tonel, Region 10

Superfund Leader/Mentor of the Year:

Elizabeth J. Adams, Region 9

Superfund Outstanding Achievement:

Lauren Volpini, Region 9

Superfund Team of the Year:

Hudson River PCBs Site Team, Region 2

Commencement Bay Nearshore/Tideflats Team,

Region 10

Superfund Enforcement Awards 

Superfund Legal Enforcer of the Year:

Arthur L. Haubenstock, Region 9

Superfund Technical Enforcer of the Year:

Laura Janson, Region 3

Superfund Financial Management Team of the

Year:

Leslie Peterson and Courtney McEnery, Region 2

Superfund Enforcement Team of the Year:

Montrose Team, Region 9 

RCRA Corrective Action Awards

Outstanding Stakeholder Involvement:

Diane Lynn Sanelli, Region 8 

Outstanding RCRA Team of the Year:

Former Amoco Refinery Site Team, Region 7

Outstanding Use of Environmental Indicators:

William F. Lowe, Region 7 

Outstanding RCRA Team of the Year:

Tennessee Team, Region 4

Faster, Focused, More Flexible Cleanup:

Tamara Ohl, Region 5

Anna Filutowski, Region 10

Outstanding RCRA Teams of the Year:

Indoor Air Action Team, Region 8

BKK Landfill Team, Region 9

Regional Science

Science Individual:

Marian Olsen, Region 2

Science Team:

Ground Water/Surface Water Transition Zone Assessment Team, Region 10 

For more information, visit: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/

new/awards/index.htm

And the winners are...
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With help from the EPA

brownfields pilot program,

Shenandoah, Virginia, is

planning its new future. In July 1998,

Shenandoah was selected for a

$200,000 brownfields pilot to assess,

clean up, and redevelop a former

iron smelter site that has lain idle for

90 years in the center of town. 

Shenandoah’s economic fortunes

have declined since its heyday as an

iron-based industrial center and railroad transportation hub. Unemployment has been running at over 10 percent, and the poverty rate is over 13

percent. In addition, there is very little

land available for commercial or industrial enterprise. One of the most obvious problems is the 66-acre tract in the

center of town that used to be the home

of the Big Gem Cast Iron Furnace,

once the principal producer of iron in

the area. More recently, a municipal

dump was located on the site.

“Everyone drove by it and knew it

was there,” described Eddie Bumbaugh, one of the two EPA-sponsored facilitators for the project.

“There was a little pond so kids

sometimes took their bikes along

there. But most people assumed it

was polluted and stayed away. Discussions developed that perhaps the

site could be usable, and could be

developed for the benefit of the town.

But one of the barriers was getting

people to believe that something

would actually happen. Part of it was

the concern over residual contamination; even more was the amount of

money needed. The residents didn’t

believe that a town as small as

Shenandoah could attract state or

federal agency attention for the

amount of money needed.” As it

turned out, an intern from James

Madison University working in the

town learned of the brownfields program and worked with a councilman

to obtain brownfields funding. 

Defining a Vision

Funding was important, but equally

important was developing a consensus about what should replace the

brownfields tract. “Although the

town managers had done a great job

moving this forward, the community

wasn’t sure what it wanted to see in

the center of town,” notes Lee Scharf,

Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialist in EPA’s Office of Site Remediation Enforcement. “We thought we

could help by bringing in facilitators

to assist the community in envisioning its future. We particularly wanted

facilitators from the local area, and

we found two: Frank Dukes from the

University of Virginia and Eddie

Bumbaugh from the Community

Mediation Center in Harrisonburg,

VA. At the first meeting, we didn’t

know if there would be any interest at

all – but 80 people showed up!” 

With a core group of six townspeople, a steering committee was

formed with three working subcommittees. An advisory committee of

outside people was also organized to

serve as a resource for the community. Every few months an open meeting was held to inform the community of plans. A professor at nearby

James Madison University brought in

his students to help develop options

and ideas for the community to consider. The steering committee eventually hired a landscape architect

from the University of Virginia to

develop a more specific plan based

on the community’s input.

The end result blended a lot of

diverse ideas into what is now

expected to be the Big Gem Furnace

Shenandoah Uses Brownfields Pilots

to Plot a New Future

EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman announced awards of $38 million to 90

communities around the country for brownfields pilot awards for assessments and

cleanup. Appearing at a ceremony in April 2001 with District of Columbia Mayor

Anthony Williams, Whitman awarded DC a $100,000 Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot to supplement the process of assessing the contamination of abandoned

properties in the District. Whitman said, “This year we’ve included provisions for the

evaluation, protection and preservation of “greenspace” parks, playgrounds, trails,

gardens, habitat restoration, and open space. Rather than continue to neglect these

abandoned properties, these grants spur partnerships among state, local, community

groups, investors and developers to create jobs and get the work done.”

Since its inception in 1993, the brownfields program has provided over $162 million in grants with an estimated $2.9 billion leveraged and over 11,000 jobs created.

For more information, contact Bonnie Piper at 202-564-4355, or visit the brownfields website at www.epa.gov/brownfields.

Brownfields Assessment 

Pilots Receive $38 Million

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Historical Park, with camping

grounds and a multiuse trail connecting adjacent neighborhoods, the

Shenandoah River, and possibly the

Shenandoah National Park. The town

believes this redevelopment will

attract a significant amount of the rising heritage tourism industry in the

Shenandoah Valley and create muchneeded jobs.

According to Charles Meek,

Shenandoah’s Economic Development Director, the town has just completed the Phase 2 Environmental

Site Assessment. Some elevated levels of metals were found but no significant contamination. EPA will

review the town’s final report and

either suggest certain cleanup measures or write the town a comfort letter stating that EPA does not foresee

the need for more work. 

Although the lengthy site assessment phase has slowed the town’s

momentum, it has also allowed time

for an interesting development. After

attending the public meetings, some

of the residents of Shenandoah

became so enthusiastic about facilitation that they asked to be trained as

facilitators. With some additional

funding, EPA coordinator Lee Scharf

arranged for Bumbaugh and Dukes

to design a facilitation training program for members of the community

so they could manage any conflicts

that might arise later in the process.

Three workshops were held, covering topics such as communication

and consensus building, conflict resolution, facilitating meetings, dealing

with groups, and public speaking.

Bumbaugh was amazed at the

response from the community:

“Twenty people showed up for the

workshops; this is out of a town population of less than 2000.” The training materials used in the workshops

will be made available to other communities over the next few months. 

As the town gets ready for redevelopment work to begin, there are

kudos all around. “This facilitation

pilot has proven to be even more

exciting than I had hoped,” said Lee

Scharf. Charles Meek also reported

good feeling in the town: “The whole

project really galvanized the community. It has empowered the citizens to

help the town come up with a reuse

plan that was both feasible and

desired by the community.” 

For more information, contact 

Lee Scharf at 202-564-5143 or

scharf.lee@epa.gov.

Shenandoah town meeting on the brownfields pilot, August 26, 1999.

Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center

Opens New ADR Website

Shenandoah’s experience with facilitation is just one of a number of successful applications of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques to environmental and other

disputes. ADR techniques can help in developing innovative, long-term, and pragmatic

ways of resolving conflicts, with reduced transaction costs. If you’re looking for facilitation or other forms of ADR assistance, a good place to start is the new website of

EPA’s Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center, www.epa.gov/adr. The Center makes

ADR services available to EPA programs in Headquarters and the Regions, as well as

external stakeholders (e.g., state agencies, industry, environmental advocacy groups)

and EPA managers and staff. Building on existing ADR efforts at EPA, the Center can

assist in developing effective ways to anticipate, prevent, and resolve disputes, and can

make neutral third parties more readily available for those purposes. The website

offers help in locating a mediator or facilitator, as well as information on training opportunities and ADR policy at EPA. 
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Alabama District

Court Issues Adverse

CERCLA Ruling in

ILCO Superfund Site 

O

n April 5, 2001, the U.S. District

Court for the Northern District

of Alabama issued a ruling in

the consolidated action entailing U.S.

v. Mountain Metal Company, et al.

(Civil Action No. 98-C-2562-S) and

Exide Corporation and Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Aaron Scrap Metals, et al.

(Civil Action No. 98-C-2886-S), related

to the Interstate Lead Company

(ILCO) Superfund site. [U.S. vs.

Mountain Metal Co., 2001 WL 377241

(N.D.Ala. 2001)] The site, located in

Leeds, Alabama, consists of the ILCO

plant, a battery recycling and secbatteries had to be broken open and

the lead plates recovered. This process

was found to amount to a treatment of

a hazardous substance as defined by

CERCLA. In contrast, the court held

that Madewell and Lion Metals sold

useful products that did not have to be

broken open by ILCO, thereby avoiding creation of the waste problem that

batteries generally create.

With respect to Madewell and Lion

Metals, the court found that, “While

the batteries themselves were no

longer useful for their original

intended purpose, the lead plates were

in a form that allowed ILCO to place

them directly in the furnace for smelting. As such they constituted a ‘complete useful product’ or raw material

for processing rather than disposal.”

The court was not persuaded by the

United States’ argument that the lead

plates still required treatment for residual amounts of sulfuric acid. 

The court distinguished the prior

Eleventh Circuit ILCO ruling by stating

that that case focused on the RCRA regulations and not CERCLA liability. (See

U.S. v. ILCO, Inc., 996 F.2d 1126 (11th

Cir. 1993).) In addition, the court noted

that the prior Eleventh Circuit decision

never discussed the acquisition by

ILCO of lead plates only. Instead, the

Eleventh Circuit had focused on the

batteries and the need to crack them

open and remove the raw materials.

The court also discussed applicability of the Superfund Recycling

Equity Act (SREA) to the two cases.

The exemption was held to be inapplicable to the United States’ case

because its action was pending at the

enactment of the SREA. However, the

court found that SREA’s provisions

had retroactive effect as to the private

party plaintiffs’ case. With regard to

lead plates, the court held that the

recycling of lead plates is a defense to

ondary lead smelting facility, and

seven satellite sites where lead contaminated furnace slag and other lead

contaminated waste from the ILCO

facility were disposed. 

Judge Clemon found the defendant

Jowers Battery liable under Section

107(a)(3) of CERCLA for sending

spent lead-acid batteries to the ILCO

site and found the defendant

Madewell and Madewell and consolidation defendant Lion Metals not

liable under Section 107(a)(3) of CERCLA for sending only battery plates to

the ILCO Site. 

With respect to Jowers Battery, the

court followed the existing case law

holding that Jowers did not sell a

“useful product” to ILCO. The court

focused specifically on the fact that the

in the courts 

In Brief

• EPA’s Cost Recovery Case Against Findett Not “Time Barred:” A ruling favorable

to EPA was issued in August 2000 by the Eighth Circuit affirming that the government’s cost recovery action for the Hayford Bridge Road Site in St. Charles, MO, was

not “time barred” under CERCLA Section 113(g)(2). On the merits of the cost recovery action, the court was not persuaded by Findett’s argument that EPA had failed

to adequately document its costs and that the costs were inconsistent with the

National Contingency Plan. Contact: David Dowton, 202-564-4228 [U.S. v. Findett

Corp., 220 F.3d 842, 8th Cir., Aug. 3, 2000]

• Judge Grants Immediate Access to Libby Asbestos Site: On March 9, 2001, a

judge granted EPA full and immediate access to certain properties around Libby, MT,

owned or controlled by defendants W.R. Grace and Kootenai Development Corporation in order to clean up asbestos contamination. EPA had been denied access since

July 2000. Contact: Steve Botts, 202-564-4217.

• Eighth Circuit Remands Vertac Case to District Court: On April 10, 2001, the Eighth

Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision (1) awarding the United

States over $100 million in reimbursement costs for the Vertac Chemical Corporation

Superfund Site and (2) allocating responsibility for such costs between Hercules, Inc.

and Uniroyal Chemical Limited. The Court of Appeals was critical of the summary manner in which the district court rejected Hercules’ divisibility arguments. Contact: Steve

Botts, 202-564-4217. [U.S. v. Hercules, Inc., No. 99-3684, 8th Cir.,2001]

• Chem-Nuclear Petition for Reimbursement Denied: On March 26, 2001, the District Court granted EPA’s motion for final judgment and denied Chem-Nuclear’s petition for reimbursement of $2,557,989 under CERCLA Section 106(b) in connection

with the Basket Creek Drum Disposal Site located in Douglas County, GA. Contact:

Benjamin Lammie, 202-564-7126. [Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. et al. v. Bush, et al.,

No. 96-1233, D.D.C., Mar. 26, 2001)]

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arranger liability under CERCLA, as

lead plates are not excluded from the

definition of “scrap metal” as a “recyclable material” under SREA. The

court found that both Lion Metals and

Madewell met the exemption requirements under SREA, and were not

excluded from the exemption by subsection (f), in that the private party

plaintiffs were unable to show that

either defendant had an objectively

reasonable basis to believe that ILCO

was not in compliance with environmental laws at the time they sold their

lead plates to ILCO. (See CERCLA

Section 127(f).) The court also found

Jowers to be exempt under SREA,

finding that batteries (while not a “useful product”) are recyclable material

under the exemption. The court also

found Jowers not to be excluded by

subsection (f) of the exemption for the

same reasons as it found neither

Madewell nor Lion Metals to be

excluded (i.e., no objectively reasonable basis...). Finally, the court ruled

that the attorney fees provisions under

SREA did not apply because, “there

was no notice to the plaintiffs of the

fee- shifting provision before the commencement of this action.”

The court found that Madewell and

Lion Metals were not liable to the

United States or the work party defendants, and dismissed the government’s and the work party defendants’

claims with prejudice. The court determined, however, that Jowers Battery is

liable to the United States for its past

and future environmental cleanup

costs incurred or to be incurred at the

ILCO site and that the case shall proceed against Jowers on the issue of

damages. The court also awarded

Madewell and Lion Metals their taxable costs against the United States.

The private party plaintiffs (work

party defendants) filed an appeal of

this decision on May 3, 2001. For more

information, contact Meredith

McLean at 202-564-4216.

reviewed EPA’s management of the

Superfund accounts receivable

process in Regions 1, 5, and 6. The

reviews were intended to identify best

practices that facilitate the management and collection of delinquent

Superfund receivables; and to develop

recommendations for improving

and/or streamlining the accounts

receivable management process by

EPA Headquarters, Regions, and the

Department of Justice (DOJ). 

In January 2001, the three offices

jointly issued a report which consolidated findings from the three

Regional reports and suggested recommendations for improving the

management of Superfund accounts

receivable in four areas:

• Timely and accurate recording of

Superfund accounts receivable;

• Internal communications;

• National and regional data management/data quality; and

• Enforcement and collection of

delinquent debt and write-off.

OSRE continues to work with DOJ

to reconcile DOJ’s accounts receivable tracking system with all open

Superfund accounts receivable for

which EPA’s Integrated Financial

Management System indicates that

DOJ has collection responsibility. 

OSRE issued interim guidance in

2000 on referring delinquent Superfund debts and plans to issue guidance later this year outlining procedures for compromising CERCLA

debt.

In FY 2001, OSRE and OCFO conducted Accounts Receivable Management Reviews in Regions 2 and 4, and

an additional review is scheduled for

Region 8 in August.

At OECA’s Seventh Annual Awards

Ceremony on May 1, the Superfund

Accounts Receivable Team received a

group bronze medal in recognition of

the team’s perseverance and hard

work to improve the accounts receivable management process.

Contacts: Bruce Pumphrey, 202-

564-6076.

O

ne of the Superfund Enforcement program’s continuing

high priorities for FY 2001 is to

improve its fiscal management of the

Superfund program. 

Section 107 of CERCLA authorizes

EPA to recover all federal costs,

including oversight, associated with

cleaning up a Superfund site. This

authority is instrumental in replenishing the Superfund Trust Fund. Since

the beginning of the Superfund program, EPA has obtained over $4 billion in commitments from PRPs and

court ordered judgments against

PRPs to reimburse the Agency for

past costs, as well as oversight costs,

fines, penalties, and cash-out settlement for future response work. 

Since FY 1998, OSRE has worked

collaboratively with the Office of the

Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) to

complete several initiatives to

enhance the collection of Superfund

accounts receivable. In FY 2000, in

conjunction with the Office of the

Inspector General, OSRE and OCFO

Accounts Receivable Get Special Attention

finances

In the Courts 

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