1.   Atlantic Richfield has not opposed the cleanup plan.

2.   A final order on the cleanup plan is expected in June, after the public comment period.

3.   After the Clinton administration approved the cleanup plan in December, it entered a public comment period that extended through the early months of the Bush administration.

4.   Both companies agreed to finance an expensive cleanup plan.

5.   But the grandfathered plants were allowed to write their own cleanup plans.

6.   But that leaves all other grandfathered industrial sites largely untouched, with only a voluntary cleanup plan promoted by Gov. Bush.

7.   Cleaning them up could be more expensive than the combined cost of every government cleanup plan now under way.

8.   Channels along parts of the canal linking the Hudson to Lake Champlain are clogged because no dredging has been allowed until the EPA has a cleanup plan.

9.   Environmentalists argued that this change would allow GE, which has always resisted the cleanup plan, to scuttle it by setting standards too high to meet.

10.   For them, other concerns overshadow thoughts about the cleanup plan.