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FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 06-30192

W. R. GRACE; ALAN R. STRINGER;

HENRY A. ESCHENBACH; JACK W.  D.C. No.

CR-05-00007-DWM

WOLTER; J. MCCAIG; ROBERT J.

OPINION

BETTACCHI; O. MARIO FAVORITO;

ROBERT C. WALSH,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Donald W. Molloy, Chief District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 26, 2006—Seattle, Washington

Filed July 12, 2007

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Kim McLane Wardlaw and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Fisher; Concurrence by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

Sue Ellen Woolridge, Assistant Attorney General, William W. Mercer, United States Attorney, Kris McLean, Assistant United States Attorney, Todd S. Aagaard, Kevin M. Cassidy, Allen M. Brabender (argued), Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.

Laurence A Urgenson, William B. Jacobson, Tyler D. Mace, Michael D. Shumsky…