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...reincarnation. They have survived far worse, particularly the collapse of mining. More than 100,000 people once lived in this city (current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...
Your report on campaign contributions [BIG MONEY & POLITICS, Feb. 7] mentioned changes in the Superfund law that relieved scrap-material dealers of liability at toxic-waste sites. The intent of Congress in passing Superfund legislation was to clean up contaminated waste sites and to promote, not harm, the recycling industry. Scrap materials are not waste. They are recyclable. But for more than 10 years, it has been necessary for those in the recyclable-scrap business to fight to have them correctly labeled not as waste but as reusable materials. The law you referred to was supported by 69 Senate...
...District of Columbia Appropriations Act. You might think that would be a boring piece of legislation. You would be wrong. For buried in the endless clauses authorizing such spending items as $867 million for education and $5 million to promote the adoption of foster children was Section 6001: Superfund Recycling Equity. It had nothing to do with the District of Columbia, nor appropriations, nor "equity" as it is commonly defined...
Instead Section 6001 was inserted in the appropriations bill by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, to take the nation's scrap-metal dealers off the hook for millions of dollars in potential Superfund liabilities at toxic-waste sites. In doing so, Lott had the support of colleagues in both parties...