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U.S. v. FRIEDLAND

No. CIV.A. 96-N-1213.

152 F.Supp.2d 1234 (2001)

UNITED STATES of America and the State of Colorado, Plaintiffs, Counter-Defendants, and Third-Party Defendants, v. Robert M. FRIEDLAND, Defendant, Counter-Defendant, Counter-Claimant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. Aztec Minerals Corporation, an Ohio corporation; South Mountain Minerals Corporation and Gray Eagle Mining Corporation, a Colorado Corporation, Third-Party Defendants, Counter and Cross-Claimants, and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Bechtel Corporation; f/k/a Bechtel Civil, Inc., f/k/a Bechtel Civil & Minerals, Inc.; Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association, a national banking association; Industrial Constructors Corporation, a Montana corporation; A.O. Smith Corporation, a New York corporation; Columbia Geosystems, Ltd., f/k/a Columbia Reservoir Systems, Ltd., an Alberta, Canada corporation; Gse Lining Technology, Inc. (as successor to Gundle Lining Systems, Inc., a/k/a Gundle Liner Systems, Inc.), a Delaware corporation; Klohn Leonoff, Inc., a Colorado corporation; Klohn Leonoff, Ltd., in its English form; and Klohn-Leonoff, Ltee, in its alternative French form, a British Columbia, Canada Company, Third-Party Defendants and Cross-Claim Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

March 31, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy Ann Mangone, Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII, Denver, CO, Melissa K. Ward, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, David L. Dain, Lois J. Schiffer, John W. Sither, A. Kent Mayo, U.S. Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Alan David Greenberg, Peter R. Mounsey, John N. Moscato, James D. Freeman, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Denver, CO, Richard B. Caschette, Kennedy & Christopher, P.C., Denver, CO, Leonard M. Gelman, Denver, CO, Henry L. Solano, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, Michael P. Carey, Richard T. Spriggs, Stephen D. Taylor, Linda Ann Surbaugh, United States Attorney's Office, Denver, CO, for USA

Cheryl A. Linden, Jane T. Feldman, Jennifer Lee Gimbel, Laura Marie Maresca, Attorney General's Office, General Legal Services Section, Denver, CO, Felicity Hannay, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, LLP, Denver, CO, Gale A. Norton, Attorney General's Office, Department of Law, Denver, CO, Alan J. Gilbert, Daniel S. Miller, Stephen Marshall Brown, Robert J. Eber, Attorney General's Office, Natural Resouces Unit, Denver, CO, Patricia S. Bangert, Powers & Phillips, PC, Denver, CO, Timothy M. Tymkovich, Hale, Hackstaff, Tymdovich & ErkenBrack, LLP, Denver, CO, Robert Reiny Marsh, Attorney General's Office, Criminal Enforcement Division, Denver, CO, Joseph Carroll Smith, Jr., Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott, Denver, CO, Robert D. Clark, Attorney General's Office, Business and Licensing Section, Denver, CO, for State of Colorado.

Frederick J. Baumann, James M. Lyons, Scott Mark Browning, Rothgerber, Johnson & Lyons, LLP, Denver, CO, Lee D. Foreman, Saskia A. Jordan, Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, P.C., Denver, CO, John Dennis Fognani, Christopher L. Thorne, Suzanna K. Moran, Zevnik, Horton, Guibord, McGovern, Palmer & Fognani, LLP, Denver, CO, Craig V. Richardson, Greenberg, Taurig, LLP, Denver, CO, for Robert M. Friedland.

Stanley L. Garnett, Connie Louise Peterson, Mark M. Mathews, Angela Wynn Victoria Jacobs, Amy Monger, Brownstein, Hyatt & Farbe, P.C., Denver, CO, Rebecca L. Summerville, Ronald B. MacDonald, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, PC, Missoula, MT, for Industrial Constructors Corporation

Timothy R. Gablehouse, Donn Lee Calkins, Melanie Joy Granberg, Gablehouse & Epel, LLC, Denver, CO, for Aztec Minerals Corporation, Gray Eagle Mining Corporation, and South Mountain Minerals Corporation.

Mark A. Wielga, Elizabeth Hope Temkin, Temkin, Wielga & Hardt, L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., Union Pacific Resources Co., and Union Pacific Resources Group, Inc.

Peter John Korneffel, Jr., Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber, P.C., Denver, CO, James A. Clark, Cassandra Gay Sasso, Munir Reza Meghjee, Baker & Hostetler, Denver, CO, for Bechtel Corporation.

J. Eric Elliff, Tarek Fathi M. Saad, Morrison & Foerster, Denver, CO, Arne David Wagner, Michele Biegel Corash, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association.

Richard S. Vermeire, John L. Watson, Craig B. Shaffer, Dianne Michelle Kueck, Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell, Denver, CO, Joanne Herlihy, Dufford & Brown, P.C., Denver, CO, for A.O. Smith Corporation.

Jeffrey A. Chase, Ann B. Frick, Mark D. Sullivan, Jacobs, Chase, Frick, Kleinkopf & Kelley LLC, Denver, CO, Neil Kenton Alexander, Porter & Hedges, LLP, Houston, TX, for Columbia Reservoir Systems, Ltd.

Paul David Phillips, Steven W. Black, Holland & Hart, LLP, Denver, CO, for Columbia Geosystems, Ltd.

Jeffrey A. Chase, Ann B. Frick, Mark D. Sullivan, Jacobs, Chase, Frick, Kleinkopf & Kelley LLC, Neil Kenton Alexander, Porter & Hedges, LLP, Houston, TX, for GSE Lining Technology, Inc.

William C. Scott, Stuart R. Butzier, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, Victor F. Boog, Linda Ann Battalora, Victor F. Boog, P.C., Lakewood, CO, for Southway Construction Co., Inc.

Hugh Gottschalk, Terence M. Ridley, Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, Denver, CO, for Sun Oil.

Roger L. Freeman, Michael John Gallagher, Davis, Graham & Stubbs LLP, Denver, CO, for ARCO.

Robert Daniel Scheid, Stephanie Erin Dunn, Eden Collins Steele, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Gilbert Western Corporation.

Jennifer K. Schreck, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Denver, CO, for Staker Paving and Construction Company, Inc.

James Daniel Levine, Long, Aldridge & Norman LLP, Atlanta, GA, James T. Markus, John Frederick Young, Block, Markus and Williams, LLC, Denver, CO, for Geosyntec Consultants, P.C.

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

NOTTINGHAM, District Judge.

This is a CERCLA action. Third-Party Plaintiff Industrial Constructors Corporation ("ICC") requests that I find the following as a matter of law: (1) Plaintiff United States is a record owner of real property or mineral interest at the Summitville Mine site; (2) the United States' ownership interest at the Summitville Mine qualifies it as an "owner" within the meaning of section 107 of the Comprehensive...

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