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EPA announced Monday that it has deleted the Mill Creek Operable Unit from the Anaconda Co. Smelter Site because remedial work is complete.

Smoke came primarily from a swath of fires burning locally in western Montana and Idaho.

Smoke came primarily from a swath of fires burning locally in western Montana and Idaho.

Smoke came primarily from a swath of fires burning locally in western Montana and Idaho.

While the area falls within the Libby Asbestos Superfund Site, Kootenai National Forest Fire Manager Officer Dan Rose said only one of the three fires was in Operable Unit 3, which contains the former W.R. Grace vermiculite mine.

An August public meeting at the East Meadow Public Library has been scheduled by the EPA on its proposed groundwater cleanup at the New Cassel/Hicksville Superfund site.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the Ponderosa Room, Lincoln County Emergency Management, 952 E. Spruce St. 205, Libby.

The one million acre landscape in Lincoln County includes 150,000 acres of hazardous fuels treatments surrounding the communities of Libby, Troy, Eureka, Stryker, Fortine and Trego.

On August 20, 2020, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Corrective Actions will be opening the public comment period for its Draft Proposed Plan: Operable Unit 8 (OU-8) Peripheral Areas located within the Anaconda Copper Mine Site in Lyon County. The public comment period will remain open through September 19, 2020.

Cascade County commissioners hosted a public meeting to discuss the potential move of the Children's Museum of Montana to the Stray Moose property in Black Eagle.