NRC announced and seeks comment on a draft report that revises and explains the formula for determining the minimum decommissioning fund requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees. 

EPA published an updated list of Agency financial assistance programs that states may choose to review under their single point of contact intergovernmental review processes.

United States v. BASF Corp., No. 92-40071 (E.D. Mich. Nov. 25, 2020).  A proposed modification to a consent decree under CERCLA concerning the Rasmussen Dump Superfund site in Brighton, Michigan, reduced the financial assurance amount and changed the financial assurance language to track that used in similar current consent decrees.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on draft guidance for applying the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund to the NPDES permit program for point source discharges that travel through groundwater before reaching waters of the United States.

EPA announced the availability of final limited modifications to NPDES general permits for discharges of stormwater from small municipal separate storm sewer systems in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

United States v. Linde Inc., No. 3:20-cv-15103 (D.N.J. Oct. 28, 2020). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $10 million to the United States to resolve its liability for past and future response costs associated with the release or threatened release of hazardous substances at the LCP Chemicals, Inc. Superfund site in Linden, New Jersey.

SIP Approval: California (approval or conditional approval of requirements for the 2006 and 2012 fine particulate matter (PM2.5) NAAQS in the Los Angeles-South Coast air basin PM2.5 nonattainment area, and reclassification of the area to serious nonattainment for the 2012 annual PM2.5 NAAQS).

The National Park Service (NPS) revised its regulations to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's 2019 decision in Sturgeon v. Frost, which held that lands in Alaska that are not federally owned, including submerged lands under navigable waters, are not subject to NPS' ordinary regulatory authority.

FWS announced and seeks comment on a draft recovery plan for the sharpnose shiner and the smalleye shiner, two fish species listed as endangered under the ESA.

SIP Approval: California (partial approval and partial disapproval of reasonably available control technology requirements in the San Diego air pollution control district and negative declarations in the San Diego 2008 ozone nonattainment area).