Environmental, Health and Safety Matters

Our domestic activities are regulated by federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and ordinances relating to both environmental protection and worker health and safety. These laws govern current operations, require remediation of environmental impacts associated with past or current operations, and under certain circumstances provide for civil and criminal penalties and fines as well as injunctive and remedial relief. Our foreign operations are subject to similar requirements as established by their respective countries.

We believe that we have substantially satisfied these diverse requirements. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations did not have a material effect on capital expenditures, earnings, or competitive position in 2008. Because these requirements are complex and, in many areas, rapidly evolving, there can be no guarantee against the possibility of sizeable additional costs for compliance in the future. However, we do not expect that our compliance with environmental laws and regulations will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position, and do not expect to make any material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities in fiscal 2009.

Our operations or facilities have been and may become the subject of formal or informal enforcement actions or proceedings for alleged noncompliance with either environmental or worker health and safety laws or regulations. Such matters have typically been resolved through direct negotiations with the regulatory agency and have typically resulted in corrective actions or abatement programs. However, in some cases, fines or other penalties have been paid.

Environmental, Health and Safety Matters

Our domestic activities are regulated by federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and ordinances relating to both environmental protection and worker health and safety. These laws govern current operations, require remediation of environmental impacts associated with past or current operations, and under certain circumstances provide for civil and criminal penalties and fines as well as injunctive and remedial relief. Our foreign operations are subject to similar requirements as established by their respective countries.

We believe that we have substantially satisfied these diverse requirements. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations did not have a material effect on capital expenditures, earnings, or competitive position in 2008. Because these requirements are complex and, in many areas, rapidly evolving, there can be no guarantee against the possibility of sizeable additional costs for compliance in the future. However, we do not expect that our compliance with environmental laws and regulations will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position, and do not expect to make any material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities in fiscal 2009.

Our operations or facilities have been and may become the subject of formal or informal enforcement actions or proceedings for alleged noncompliance with either environmental or worker health and safety laws or regulations. Such matters have typically been resolved through direct negotiations with the regulatory agency and have typically resulted in corrective actions or abatement programs. However, in some cases, fines or other penalties have been paid.

Environmental, Health and Safety Matters

Our domestic activities are regulated by federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and ordinances relating to both environmental protection and worker health and safety. These laws govern current operations, require remediation of environmental impacts associated with past or current operations, and under certain circumstances provide for civil and criminal penalties and fines as well as injunctive and remedial relief. Our foreign operations are subject to similar requirements as established by their respective countries.

We believe that we have substantially satisfied these diverse requirements. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations did not have a material effect on capital expenditures, earnings, or competitive position in 2007. Because these requirements are complex and, in many areas, rapidly evolving, there can be no guarantee against the possibility of sizeable additional costs for compliance in the future. However, we do not expect that our compliance with environmental laws and regulations will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position, and do not expect to make any material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities in fiscal 2008.

Our operations or facilities have been and may become the subject of formal or informal enforcement actions or proceedings for alleged noncompliance with either environmental or worker health and safety laws or regulations. Such matters have typically been resolved through direct negotiations with the regulatory agency and have typically resulted in corrective actions or abatement programs. However, in some cases, fines or other penalties have been paid.

Environmental, Health and Safety Matters

Our domestic activities are regulated by federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances relating to both environmental protection and worker health and safety. These laws govern current operations, require remediation of environmental impacts associated with past or current operations, and under certain circumstances provide for civil and criminal penalties and fines as well as injunctive and remedial relief. Our foreign operations are subject to similar requirements as established by their respective countries.

We believe that we have substantially satisfied these diverse requirements. Because these requirements are complex and, in many areas, rapidly evolving, there can be no guarantee against the possibility of sizeable additional costs for compliance in the future. However, we do not expect that our compliance with environmental laws and regulations will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position, and do not expect to make any material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities in Fiscal 2007 or Fiscal 2008.

Our operations or facilities have been and may become the subject of formal or informal enforcement actions or proceedings for alleged noncompliance with either environmental or worker health and safety laws or regulations. Such matters have typically been resolved through direct negotiations with the regulatory agency and have typically resulted in corrective actions or abatement programs. However, in some cases, fines or other penalties have been paid.

Environmental, Health and Safety Matters

        Our domestic activities are regulated by federal, state and local statutes, regulations and ordinances relating to both environmental protection and worker health and safety. These laws govern current operations, require remediation of environmental impacts associated with past or current operations, and under certain circumstances provide for civil and criminal penalties and fines as well as injunctive and remedial relief. Our foreign operations are subject to similar requirements as established by their respective countries.

        We believe that we have substantially satisfied these diverse requirements. Because these requirements are complex and, in many areas, rapidly evolving, there can be no guarantee against the possibility of sizeable additional costs for compliance in the future. However, we do not expect that our compliance with environmental laws and regulations will have a material effect on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position, and do not expect to make any material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities in Fiscal 2006 or Fiscal 2007.

        Our operations or facilities have been and may become the subject of formal or informal enforcement actions or proceedings for alleged noncompliance with either environmental or worker health and safety laws or regulations. Such matters have typically been resolved through direct negotiations with the regulatory agency and have typically resulted in corrective actions or abatement programs. However, in some cases, fines or other penalties have been paid.