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\r\n<\/P>\r\nThe Shoshone-Bannock Tribes<\/a> can continue charging food and chemical conglomerate FMC Corp. a fee of $1.5 million a year for storing hazardous waste on reservation land.\r\n <\/P>\r\nThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined<\/a> to hear a challenge to a lower court decision in the tribes\u2019 favor.\r\n <\/P>\r\nIn 2019, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes could charge FMC a fee<\/a> for storing the waste from its now-closed phosphorus processing plant on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho. The ruling by the three-judge appeals court panel said the tribes have jurisdiction over the company.\r\n <\/P>\r\n <\/p>\r\nChairman Devon Boyer said he was pleased with the high court’s decision and that “FMC is finally required to honor their agreement to comply with tribal jurisdiction.”\r\n <\/P>\r\n“This decision helps all of Indian Country in efforts to protect tribal lands and natural resources as well as the betterment of all people of southeast Idaho,” Boyer said in a statement<\/a>. \r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\nGregory G. Garre, an attorney for FMC Corp., previously argued that the company shouldn\u2019t have to pay the fee. He told the 9th Circuit panel that the tribes\u2019 demand could be in perpetuity because the waste from the former production plant is now a Superfund site, and a safe cleanup could take decades.\r\n <\/P>\r\nFMC had paid the fee from 1998 to 2001 after reaching an agreement with the tribe. But it quit doing so in December 2001 when the plant stopped its phosphorus operations.\r\n <\/P>\r\n