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UNITED STATES v. RESERVE MINING CO.

No. 5-72-Civ-19.

417 F.Supp. 789 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, The State of Michigan et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, State of Minnesota and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Plaintiffs, v. RESERVE MINING COMPANY et al., Defendants, Northeastern Minnesota Development Association et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fifth Division.

July 7, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Varnum, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff United States of America.

Michael H. Ferring, St. Paul, Minn., for United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Byron E. Starns, Jr., Philip Olfelt, C. Paul Faraci and James M. Schoessler, St. Paul, Minn., for plaintiff State of Minnesota.

William P. Dinan, Robert Asleson, Daniel C. Berglund, Duluth, Minn., for plaintiff City of Duluth.

Howard Vogel, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiffs Minnesota Environmental Law Institute, Inc., Northern Environmental Council, Save Lake Superior Ass'n, Michigan Environmental Student Confederation, Inc., and Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.

Edward T. Fride, Duluth, Minn., and Maclay Hyde, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Reserve Mining Co.

William T. Egan, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Republic Steel Co.

John B. Gordon and G. Allen Cunningham, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Armco Steel Co.

Wayne G. Johnson, Silver Bay, Minn., for defendants Village of Beaver Bay, Silver Bay Chamber of Commerce, Village of Silver Bay, Town of Beaver Bay, Lax Lake Property Owners Ass'n.

ORDER TERMINATING DISCHARGE OF TACONITE TAILINGS

DEVITT, Chief Judge.

My responsibility now is to signal the end of the dumping of taconite tailings into Lake Superior—it is not to effect a choice between Milepost 7 and Milepost 20 as the appropriate on-land disposal site.

I regret that the parties have not been able to agree on a suitable disposal site. Because of danger to health and environment, Reserve must cease its discharge of production...

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