EPA announced the availability of its final general NPDES permit for water discharges from facilities classified as low threat located in the Navajo Nation.

United States v. General Recycling of Washington, LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00329 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 12, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants must construct, monitor, and maintain a habitat restoration project and pay a total of $360,558.12 for assessment costs in connection with natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from facilities located near the Lower Duwamish River. 

United States v. Crowley Marine Services, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00307 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 7, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants must purchase credits in a habitat restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River, pay a total of $210,000 for natural resource damages, and pay $64,325.63 to reimburse assessment costs in connection with natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from facilities located along and near the river. 

EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

EPA seeks comment on draft guidance to clarify and inform future NPDES permitting actions for communities with combined sewer systems.