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English to Chinese: CONTINGENCIES/或有事项 Detailed field: Finance (general)
Source text - English In addition, *** is a party to various legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business.
Environmental Liabilities
***'s operations are subject to a broad range of laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and the environment at its multiple locations and operating subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2006, *** had established reserves of approximately 830 million for environmental liabilities. Previous owners of ***'s facilities expended in the past, and *** expects to expend in the future, substantial amounts to achieve or maintain ongoing compliance with applicable environmental laws and regulations.
United States
In 1990, *** USA's Indiana Harbor (East) facility was party to a lawsuit filed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) under the RCRA. In 1993, *** USA entered into a consent decree, which, among other things, requires facility-wide RCRA corrective action and Indiana Harbor Ship Canal sediment assessment and remediation.
*** USA’s properties in Lackawanna, New York are subject to an Administrative Order on Consent with the EPA requiring facility-wide RCRA corrective action. The Administrative Order, entered into in 1990 by the former owner, Bethlehem Steel, requires *** to perform a Remedial Facilities Investigation (“RFI”) and corrective measures study, to complete corrective measures, and to perform any required post-remedial activities. In 2004, the RFI was completed, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and *** USA executed an Order on Consent to perform interim corrective measures at a former benzol storage tank area.
In 1997, Bethlehem Steel, the EPA and the Maryland Department of the Environment agreed to a phased RFI as part of a comprehensive multimedia pollution Consent Decree for investigation and remediation at *** USA’s Sparrows Point, Maryland facility. *** USA has assumed Bethlehem Steel’s ongoing obligations under the Consent Decree. The Consent Decree requires *** USA to address compliance, closure and post-closure care matters and implement corrective measures associated with two on-site landfills, perform a site-wide investigation, continue the operation and maintenance of a remediation system at an idle rod and wire mill and address several pollution prevention items. The potential costs, as well as the time frame of possible remediation activities, which *** currently considers probable, relating to the site-wide investigation at Sparrows Point, cannot be reasonably estimated until more of the investigations required by the Consent Decree have been completed and the data there from analyzed.
*** USA is required to prevent acid mine drainage from discharging to surface waters at closed mining operations in southwestern Pennsylvania. In 2003, *** USA entered into a Consent Order and Agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (the “PaDEP”) addressing the transfer of required permits from Bethlehem Steel to *** USA and providing financial assurance for long-term operation and maintenance of the wastewater treatment facilities associated with these mines. As required by this Consent Order and Agreement, *** USA submitted an operational improvement plan to improve treatment facility operations and lower long-term wastewater treatment costs. The Consent Order and Agreement also required *** USA to propose a long-term financial assurance mechanism. In 2004, *** USA entered into a revised Consent Order and Agreement outlining a schedule for implementation of capital improvements and requiring the establishment of a treatment trust that the PaDEP has estimated to be the net present value of all future treatment cost. *** USA expects to fund the treatment trust over a period of up to ten years at a current target value of approximately 20 until the improvements are made and the treatment trust is fully funded. After the treatment trust is fully funded, the treatment trust will then be used to fund the cost of treatment of acid mine drainage. Although remote, *** USA could be required to make up any deficiency in the treatment trust in the future.
On August 8, 2006, the EPA issued *** USA’s Burns Harbor, Indiana facility a Notice of Violation (“NOV”) alleging that in early 1994 the facility (then owned by Bethlehem Steel, from whom the assets were acquired out of bankruptcy) commenced a major modification of its #2 Coke Battery without obtaining a Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) permit and has continued to operate without the appropriate PSD permit. In October and November 2006, *** USA met with the EPA to obtain a preliminary understanding of the allegations and the EPA’s technical bases for the NOV. Further communication and discussion with the EPA is planned.
Translation - Chinese 此外，***公司正常经营过程中发生的多起法律诉讼中是当事方。
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