The federal government has failed in its attempt to get out of a multimillion-dollar suit over the cleanup of a radioactive waste disposal site in central Pennsylvania, even though it already agreed to pay the state $10 million a decade ago, under a federal judge’s order.
Pennsylvania spent more than $35 million to clean up the site that is just south of the Allegheny National Forest in the 1990s and in 2009, filed a suit against Lockheed Martin, whose predecessor had used the site in the 1960s to do work for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, seeking to recover costs for cleanup.
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