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SPENCER FANE B R IT T $ B ROW N E LLP ATTORNEYS" COUIUELORS AT LAW . Incorporated, United Technologies, Inc., The Marmon Group of companies, Prolerized Steel Corporation, The City of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, Heritage Environmental Services, Yellow Freight System, Cleveland Wrecking Company, Union Equity Cooperative Exchange, Farmland Industries, Cyprus Minerals Company, Paramount Communications, Witco Corporation, Panhandle Eastern Corporation, Sauer-Sundstrand Corporation, Seagate Technology, Deere & Company, Merrill Lynch Hubbard, Inc., National Association of Demolition Contractors, Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Kansas City Power and Light Company, and The Empire District Electric Company. The Firm is proud not only of its solid base of regional clients in the environmental field, but of its national reputation as well. The Firm's lawyers regularly handle environmental matters across the country and speak and write about environmental law issues for national audiences. Spencer Fane Britt & Browne's Environmental Experience A summary of some of the significant environmental matters the Firm has handled within the past few years is presented in the following paragraphs. Superfund Cleanups The Firm has a substantial amount of experience representing major hazardous waste generators in litigation under the federal Superfund law ("CERCLAn), under which the government seeks to compel the cleanup of hazardous waste disposal sites. The Firm has represented waste . generators at scores of Superfund sites across the country. The Firm's clients have been among the government's primary targets at many of these Superfund sites. Firm lawyers, therefore, have played leading roles in defending Superfund cases, negotiating resolutions, developing unique and creative settlement alternatives, and pursuing third parties and insurance carriers to help pay the cleanup costs. Two of the many well-known cases in which the Firm has played leading roles are United States v. Conservation Chemical Co. and United States v. Hardage. In each, Firm lawyers served among a select group oflead counsel. In Hardage, one Firm lawyer served as chairman of the Case Management Committee, which successfully directed the defense of the lawsuit on behalf of 25 defendants and more than 100 members of a generator defense group. A second Firm lawyer led the generators' defense of the government's multi-million dollar cost recovery claim. At several sites Firm members have chaired or taken leading roles in multiparty steering committees that direct response activities. At many, the Firm has been retained as common counsel for the groups undertaking response activities. At other sites, the Firm has represented clients who were not major parties and has sought de minimis settlements on their behalf In addition to Superfund actions, the Firm has represented numerous clients before various state regulatory agencies in administrative actions requiring cleanup of hazardous wastes under state . 2 WA 506775.1