EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA involving a mixed work and funding agreement, including a proposed compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct and indirect EPA costs associated with the Agency’s contribution to the implementation of a removal action at the Mansell Field Site in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Logan Street Mercury Response site in Ada County, Idaho.

EPA announced a proposed administrative cost settlement for recovery of response costs concerning the Sessions Clock site in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.

United States v. Lynden, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00101 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 24, 2023). Settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants that released hazardous substances and discharged oil from facilities along and near the Lower Duwamish River must pay $556,250 for natural resource damages; purchase restoration credits in a restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River by a project developer to serve as a restoration credit bank; and pay their equitable share of assessment costs.

EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Bay site in Michigan.

EPA announced a proposed settlement comprised of two administrative agreements in which settling CERCLA defendants must pay $1.2 million in reimbursement of past response costs paid by the United States in connection with an ongoing removal action at the Wells G&H Superfund site in Woburn, Massachusetts.

United States v. Buckhorn, Inc., No. 22-8989 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 20, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1,855,500 for response costs EPA incurred responding to the New Idria Mercury Mine site in San Benito County, California.

United States v. Alden Leeds, Inc., No. 2:22-cv-07326 (D.N.J. Dec. 16, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay $150 million in cleanup costs incurred and to be incurred at Operable Unit 2 and Operable Unit 4 of the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in New Jersey.

EPA Region 2 announced a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Jewett White Lead Company Superfund site located on Staten Island in Richmond County, New York.

A proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA requires settling defendants to pay the United States and Delaware $1,071,755.84 in connection with the alleged release of hazardous substances from two manufacturing facilities in New Castle County, Delaware, leading to injury to, impairment of, destruction of, loss of, diminution of value of, and/or loss of use of natural resources.