EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that relieves defendants from paying U.S. response costs incurred at the Terrible Mine Superfund site in Custer County, Colorado, due to an inability to pay.

United States v. Princeton Gamma-Tech, No. 91-809 (AET) (D.N.J. July 21, 2009). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Rocky Hill Municipal Wellfield and the Montgomery Township Housing Development Superfund sites in Rocky Hill, New Jersey, must pay $1,842,500 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the sites and must pay $907,500 in past and future response costs and natural resource damages to New Jersey.

United States v. Blacksburg Country Club, Inc., No. 7:12-cv-00087 (W.D. Va. Feb. 23, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant that released hazardous substances at its golf course in Blacksburg, Virginia, into the North Fork of the Roanoke River, resulting in the death of an estimated 169 Roanoke logperch, an endangered species, must implement a restoration plan, must pay $18,964.34 in FWS natural resource damage assessment costs, and must pay future travel costs incurred by FWS personnel in monitoring the restoration.

EPA entered into four administrative settlement agreements for past U.S. response costs incurred at the Florida Petroleum Reprocessors Superfund site in Davie, Florida.

United States v. FMC Corp., No. 2:11-cv-00699 (M.D. Ala. Feb. 21, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $300,000, plus interest, in U.S. response costs incurred at the Performance Advantage Superfund site in Coosa County, Alabama, and the United States will transfer $71,000 from the U.S. Treasury Judgment Fund to the EPA Hazardous Substance Superfund.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires six settling parties to pay $118,503 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Arkansas Waste to Energy Superfund Site in Osceola, Arkansas, and to remove the remaining 708 drums still onsite.

In re Canal Corp., No. 08-36642-DOT (Bankr. E.D. Va. Feb. 16, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Peck Iron and Metal Superfund site in Portsmouth, Virginia, must provide allowed general unsecured claims to the United States in the amount of $4,470,291. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling party to pay $200,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Eagle Picher Carefree Battery Superfund site in Socorro, New Mexico.

United States v. Seachrome Corp., No. 2:02-cv-4565 ABC (RCx) (C.D. Cal. Feb. 22, 2012). Settling CERCLA PRPs responsible for past and future response costs incurred at the South El Monte Operable Unit of the San Gabriel Valley Area 1 Superfund site in South El Monte, California, must pay a total of $1.7 million plus interest. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA for U.S. response costs incurred at the Anniston PCB Superfund site in Anniston, Alabama.