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ASARCO INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY

No. 69406-1.

43 P.3d 471 (2002)

145 Wash.2d 750

ASARCO INCORPORATED, Respondent, v. DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY, and Thomas C. Fitzsimmons, Director of the Department of Ecology, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided March 21, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine Gregoire, Attorney General, Mary Sue Wilson, Asst., Ronald L. Lavigne, Asst., Andrew A. Fitz, Asst., Olympia, for Appellant.

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Timothy H. Butler, Seattle, Covington & Burling, Peter J. Nickles, Washington, DC, for Respondent.

Michael James Zevenbergen, Seattle, Lois J. Schiffer, David C. Shilton, Karen M. Wardzinski, R. Justin Smith, Washington, DC, amicus curiae.

Mark Thormod Soine, Everett City Attorney, Everett, Rodney L. Brown, Kurt Bradley Peterson, Seattle, Marten, Brown, Jennifer Tanya Barnett, Olympia, Foreman & Arch, Dale Melvin Foreman, Wenatchee, Preston, Gates, Ellis, Fredric Tausend, Kenneth Stuart Weiner, John Craig Bjorkman, Seattle, Christine Gregoire, Attorney General, amicus curiae.

Eric Nelson, Asst., Olympia, Jonathan T. Stier, Charles Craig Caldart, Raymond Brent Walton, Mikkelborg, Broz, Wells & Fryer, amicus curiae.

John Earl Lenker, Newell David Smith, Seattle, Daniel J. Popeo, Paul D. Kamenar, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, DC, amicus curiae.

Russell C. Brooks, amicus curiae.

CHAMBERS, J.

We must determine whether a preemptive challenge to a possible Washington State Department of Ecology enforcement action under the Model Toxics Control Act is justiciable. We conclude it is not.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

In 1894, the Puget Sound Reduction Company of West Virginia began operating a smelter on a 44 acre site in Everett, Washington. Arsenic and lead were smelted there for sale. In 1903...

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