Municipalities have estimated the total cleanup will cost more than $20 billion.
Experts had originally estimated that cleanup would cost $12 billion and take until 2025.
The judge said the cleanup could cost as much as $285 million.
The department has said a cleanup at Brookhaven would cost $460 million and take until 2030.
The states claimed the cleanup would cost more than $100 million.
The cleanup will cost at least $1 billion over the next year, the government said this week.
The cleanup will probably cost more than $100 billion over the next several decades.
Officials say the cleanup could cost more than $30 million.
The Army estimates that the cleanup will cost $750 million to $1 billion.
He said he had no idea yet how much the cleanup would cost.