Superfund Cleanup Deals Could Get Trickier After Federal Memo

Hashing out cleanup costs for some of the most contaminated sites in the country could become more complicated under a new Justice Department memo affecting settlements.

Agency lawyers aren’t allowed to tap government coffers for settlement deals that don’t fully resolve claims against the U.S., the Office of the Associate Attorney General said in a March 5 letter obtained by Bloomberg Law under the Freedom of Information Act.

Several outside lawyers said they’d been trying to track down the memo for months to figure out how it would affect their clients involved in Superfund cleanups.

The Justice ...