EPA finalized protective and science-based federal human health criteria to protect Washington's waters, including waters where tribes hold treaty-reserved rights to fish.

United States v. Elyria, City of, No. 22-cv-02026 (N.D. Ohio Nov. 9, 2022). A settling CWA defendant that allegedly violated a prior consent judgment related to discharges of pollutants from the city's sewer system must pay a $100,000 civil penalty to the United States and $100,000 into Ohio's Surface Water Improvement Fund, and implement an Integrated Wet Weather Control Plan to be completed by December 31, 2044.

EPA issued the Fifth Contaminant Candidate List under the SDWA, listing contaminants in drinking water that are currently not subject to any proposed or promulgated national primary drinking water regulations.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced the availability of a draft guidance document intended to establish a new, nationally consistent architecture for coastal zone area contingency plans.

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CWA and the APA in Environmental Law & Policy Center v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 3:19-cv-295 (N.D. Ohio), that would create a binding schedule for the development of a TMDL to address nutrient and algae impairments in western Lake Erie.

United States v. Lakewood, Ohio, City of, No. 1:22-cv-01964 (N.D. Ohio Oct. 31, 2022).  An interim partial consent decree requires a settling CWA defendant to undertake several projects to greatly reduce discharges of untreated sanitary sewage into Lake Erie and the Rocky River; submit an updated plan to reduce discharges of sanitary sewage in the remainder of defendant’s sewer system; implement its updated plan through a subsequent, enforceable agreement; and pay a $100,000 civil penalty.

NOAA announced a public comment period to solicit input on the performance evaluation of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve.

A proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA, RCRA, and the CWA requires settling defendants to pay the United States for costs incurred responding to environmental contamination at the West Nome Tank Farm site in Nome, Alaska.

United States v. Petroff Trucking Co., Inc., No. 20-cv-930-DWD (S.D. Ill. Oct. 24, 2022). A settling CWA defendant that discharged pollutants from point sources into waters of the United States without a permit must perform compensatory mitigation.

EPA Region 1 announced the availability of the draft NPDES small wastewater treatment facility general permit modification for discharges to certain waters of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.