Endnotes 



1. Record of Decision for Reclamation of the Zortman and Landusky Mines, Bureau of Land 

 Management and Montana Department of Environmental Quality, May 2002 (ROD, 2002). 



2. United States of America and State of Montana v. Pegasus Gold Corporation and Zortman 

 Mining, Inc., Civil Action No. 95-95-BLG-JDS, and Gros Ventre Tribe, Assiniboine Tribe, Fort 

 Belknap Community Council, and Island Mountain Protectors Association v. Pegasus Gold, Inc., 

 Pegasus Gold Corporation, and Zortman Mining, Inc., Civil Action No. 95-96-BLG-JDS, 

 Consolidated Consent Decree, (Consent Decree). 



3. Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes and Fort Belknap Community Council v. Bureau of Land 

 Management, Before the United States Dept. of Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals Board 

 of Land Appeals, BLM Nos. MTM 77778-77779, MT-0670-05-1990-01, June 27, 2002. 



4. Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes and Fort Belknap Indian Community Council, Montana 

 Environmental Information Center, Mineral Policy Center, National Wildlife Federation v. 

 Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Kelvin Buchanan in His Capacity as 

 Bankruptcy Trustee for Zortman Mining, Inc., and Pegasus Gold Corporation, Montana First 

 Judicial District Court, Cause No. ADV-2002-473, July 2002. 



5. Impacts to Surface and Ground Water From Ten Montana Metal Mines, pp. 32-40, Stuart 

 Levit, Public Education for Water Quality Project, August 1996. 



6. Gros Ventre Tribe, Assiniboine Tribe, and the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council v. 

 United States of America; Bureau of Land Management, et al., Order, p. 12, CV 00-69-M- 

 DWM, June 28, 2004. 



7. Scott Haight, BLM, Lewistown Area Office, report comments, August 16, 2004. 



8. Assiniboine and Gros Ventre Tribes v. Luke Ployhar, Owner of Zortman and Landusky 

 Mines; Jan P. Sensibaugh, Director of MDEQ; and Kathleen Clarke, Director of US BLM, Civil 

 No. CV 04-17-M-DWM, January 28, 2004. 



9. See endnote 4, Department of Environmental Quality's answer to complaint, p. 4. 



10. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), May 14, 1999. Petitioned 

 Public Health Assessment for Kings Creek (a.k.a. Fort Belknap Indian Reservation/Zortman 

 Mining Incorporated). 



1 1 . Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Zortman and Landusky Mines; 

 BLM and DEQ; December 2001, pp. 3-102, 6-71 (SEIS, 2001). 



12. SEIS,2001 p. 6-72. 

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