United States v. Starkist Co., No. 2:17 CV 01190-DSC (W.D. Pa. July 1, 2022). A proposed modification to a CERCLA consent decree requires settling CWA, EPCRA, and RCRA defendants to achieve and maintain compliance with the effluent limits in their NPDES permit in an alternative manner than that set forth in the original consent decree. 

EPA Region 1 announced the availability of a draft modification to the NPDES Aquaculture General Permit for discharges from concentrated aquatic animal production facilities and other related facilities to certain waters in Vermont that updates the formaldehyde monitoring requirement for two facilities. 

EPA Region 6 proposed to reissue NPDES General Permit No. GMG290000 for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category, located in and discharging to the outer continental shelf offshore of Louisiana and Texas. 

EPA added certain water quality limited waters to the 2018 New York list of impaired waters under the CWA. 

United States v. Trager Limestone LLC, No. 20-cv-6060 (W.D. Mo. July 5, 2022). A settling CWA defendant that discharged pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States and failed to meet the requirements of EPA's “Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures Plan” regulations must restore the impacted areas, record a conservation easement, and pay a civil penalty. 

EPA approved Maine's request to revise/modify certain of its EPA-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting. 

United States v. Bristol Township, No. 2:10-cv-5049 (E.D. Pa. June 29, 2022). A proposed second amendment to a consent decree allows a settling CWA defendant that discharged pollutants from its sanitary sewer system into navigable waters, violated the operation and maintenance requirements of its NPDES permit, and violated the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law to conduct additional inflow and infiltration work through the implementation of its Inflow and Infiltration Abatement Plan, and construct a new clarifier at its waste water treatment plant. 

United States v. Toledo, Ohio, City of, No. 3:91-7646 (N.D. Ohio June 23, 2022). A proposed amendment to a consent decree requires a settling CWA defendant that violated wastewater treatment discharge permit requirements for its treatment plant and sewer system to construct separate storm sewers instead of the Swan Creek North Tunnel Extension.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on draft guidance for state officials submitting applications to the Agency to establish vessel sewage no-discharge zones under the CWA. 

United States v. Yuhasz Bros., LLC, No. 1:19-cv-1370 (N.D. Ohio June 7, 2022). A settling CWA defendant that discharged pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States must restore the impacted areas and/or perform mitigation.