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Workable agreement for future asbestos abatement seems likely

| May 12, 2020 8:16 AM

After months of acrimony, Lincoln County Commissioner Mark Peck (D-1) says local officials are close to an agreement with Helena for the handoff of Libby Superfund site oversight to the state Department of Environmental Quality.

County residents and elected leaders, Peck chief among them, have long pressured the state to clearly absolve property owners in Libby and Troy — as well as the county government — from the financial burden of future cleanup of asbestos contamination...

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