Kevin Murray

Client Results

• Strategist behind the highly innovative and successful Midvale Slag Site, which recently was deleted from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List of Superfund Sites 50 years ahead of schedule.

• Played a key role in the Richardson Flats remediation, which was recognized by the Department of the Interior as the site of the year for its effective combination of Natural Resource Damages Restoration and CERCLA remediation.

• Led the remediation and redevelopment of a 450-acre smelter site through the innovative use of special account and private funds. It was the first time EPA had agreed to use the approach. The former smelter site is now a thriving multi-use project.

• Led the development of innovative protocols for the reclamation and redevelopment of 2000-plus acres of mining land in a leading resort area. Continued development of estate lots, residential, commercial and hotels.

• Lead counsel on one of the first projects to successfully utilize the EPA ER3 pilot Superfund initiative.

• Negotiated a Prospective Lessee Agreement, a liability relief mechanism reportedly used by EPA only one other time in CERCLA history.

• Led the environmental team of a utility cooperative in permitting a large wind farm.

• Counsel to potentially responsible parties in the remediation of seven miles of petroleum contaminated canal sediments.

• Counsel to numerous parties in the negotiation of dozens of consent decrees for NPL site remediation.

• Due diligence counsel in a $3.2 billion acquisition of a Fortune 50 company.

• Due diligence counsel in a bid to acquire a 1500 mile portion of a gas pipeline system, as well as an 8000 mile gulf natural gas pipeline and its associated 68.5 billion cubic feet storage system.

• Due diligence counsel to acquire the production, gathering, transmission, and distribution assets of a large gas company, including more than 12,000 miles of pipeline and 90 compressor stations.