 Officials are continuing to clean up the mess, but more than half had been picked up just months after the incident. The Montana Department of Labor and Industry announced that the state's unemployment rate held steady in the month of May at 3.1%, the same rate as in April and nearly 1% below the national rate of 4%. As for the Tri-County area, Lewis and Clark's 2.3% remained one of the lowest rates in the state. Jefferson, meanwhile, was 2.7%.