EPA Cleanup at Columbia Falls/ Cyber Security Bills

Missoulian: Glencore reaches agreement with EPA for Columbia Falls cleanup
Final agreement to study contamination at Columbia Falls aluminum plant site (Flathead County, Mont.)
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a final agreement to investigate contamination at the Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant, also known as the Anaconda Company Columbia Falls Reduction Plant site, in Flathead County, Montana. Under the terms of the agreement, the site’s current owner, Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, will conduct a comprehensive investigation of soils, river sediments, and ground and surface water to determine the nature and extent of contamination at the site. The company will reimburse EPA for its future costs in overseeing the investigation.”

Missoulian: Cybersecurity bills would add secrecy to public records laws

S.Amdt.1569 to S.Amdt.1463
“To improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats.”

H.R.1735 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016
“The bill authorizes the FY2016 personnel strengths for active duty and reserve forces and sets forth policies regarding military personnel; compensation and other personnel benefits; health care; acquisition policy and management; DOD organization and management; civilian personnel matters; matters relating to foreign nations; cooperative threat reduction; and strategic programs, cyber, and intelligence matters.”

S.754 - Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015
“This bill requires the Director of National Intelligence and the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Defense, and Justice to develop procedures to share cybersecurity threat information with private entities, nonfederal government agencies, state, tribal, and local governments, the public, and entities under threats.

To detect, prevent, or mitigate cybersecurity threats or security vulnerabilities, private entities may monitor and operate defensive measures on: (1) their own information systems; and (2) with written consent, the information systems of other private or government entities.

Liability protections are provided to entities that voluntarily share and receive cyber threat indicators and defensive measures with other entities or the government.”