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<br /> <br />is considerable value for the Lenders in the other estates in <br />this jointly administered bankruptcy case, no significant <br />value will remain in the Powderhorn estate to pay for <br />reclamation and environmental remediation. <br />Debtors cannot abandon property where that property poses <br />an imminent and identifiable hazard to the public health or <br />safety. See, Midlantic National Bank v. Ne~.a Jersey Department <br />of Environmental Protection, 474 U.S. 494, 507 (1986); <br />Pennsylvania v. Conroy, 24 F.3d 568, 569 (3d Cir. 1994). In <br />some courts, there can be no abandonment if the site violates <br />applicable environmental laws, regardless of whether the site <br />presents an imminent and identifiable hazard to public health <br />and safety. See, In re Wall Tube & Metal Products, Inc., 831 <br />F.2d 118, 122 (6th Cir. 1987); In re Peerless Plating Co., 70 <br />B.R. 943, 996-97 (Bankr.W.D.Mich.1987) (a trustee may not <br />abandon a site in contravention of environmental law unless <br />the environmental law is so onerous as to interfere with the <br />bankruptcy adjudication, the law is not reasonably designed to <br />protect against identified hazards, or the violation caused by <br />abandonment would be speculative and indeterminate); In re <br />Stevens, 68 B.R. 779, 783-89 (Bankr.D.Me.1987); In re Mowbra <br />Engineering Co., 67 B.R. 34, 35 (Bankr.M.D.Ala.1986). <br />27 <br />