# ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY/MILL CREEK
> **Judicial** · FY1987 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `47991`
- **Case Number:** 08-1987-0042
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $1.56M
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THE MILL CREEK, MONTANA, CASE CONCERNS THE PERMANENT      RELOCATION OF ALL SEVEN RESIDENTIAL HOUSEHOLDS REMAINING     IN THE COMMUNITY OF MILL CREEK, MT.  MILL CREEK IS CONSIDER- ED AN OPERABLE UNIT OF THE ANACONDA SMELTER NPL SITE IN DEER LODGE COUNTY, MT.  THE POTENTIALLY RESPONSIBLE PARTY FOR     THE SITE, THE ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY  ARCO               COMPLETED A REMEDIAL INVESTIGATION/FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE SITE WHICH IDENTIFIED THE INTERIM REMEDY OF PERMANENT        RELOCATION FOLLOWED BY DEMOLITION OF THE HOUSES AND TEMPOR-  ARY SITE STABILIZATION AS THE PREFERRED REMEDY FOR THIS OPER ABLE UNIT.                                                   A CIVIL REFERRAL SEEKING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF UNDER SECTION     106 OF CERCLA WAS SENT BY EPA-REGION 8 TO EPA HEADQUARTERS   ON SEPT 30, 1987.  THE ROD WAS SIGNED BY THE EPA REGION VIII REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR ON OCTOBER 2, 1987 SELECTING          PERMANENT RELOCATION OF RESIDENTS WITH TEMPORARY SITE        STABILIZATIONS.  ARCO SIGNED THE CONSENT DECREE ON JAN 7,    1988.                                                        ***********************************************************    THE ANACONDA SMELTER NPL SITE INCLUDES THE LOCATION OF THE OLD ANACONDA MINERALS COMPANY COPPER SMELTER NEAR THE TOWN   OF ANACONDA, MONTANA. THIS SITE WAS OWNED AND OPERATED UNTIL 1980 BY THE ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY(ARCO) WHO MERGED WITH THE ANACONDA MINERALS COMPANY IN 1978.  PARTICULATE AND      FUGITIVE DUST EMISSIONS FROM THE SMELTE

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