EPA approved revisions to the Navajo Nation's primacy program under the SDWA that adopted regulations effectuating the federal Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule and the Ground Water Rule.

EPA approved revisions to Guam's primacy program under the SDWA that adopted regulations effectuating the federal Revised Total Coliform Rule.

United States v. TCI Pacific Communications, LLC, No. 2:23-cv-06076 (D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2023). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant must pay $950,000 for past response costs arising from removal action by the EPA to address lead-contaminated soil at the Barth Smelting Corporation Site in Newark, New Jersey.

United States v. Ford, No. 19 Civ. 9600 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 18, 2023). A settling CWA defendant that filled wetlands, channelized streams, and discharged process wastewater and other pollutants from a concentrated animal feeding operation without a permit and violated the terms of a construction stormwater permit must restore approximately 18 acres of wetlands and two streams and pay a $200,000 civil penalty.

EPA proposed to enter into a cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA with Crown Container Transfer Station Co., Inc. concerning the Frankfort Asbestos Superfund site in Frankfort, New York.

United States v. NCR Corp., No. 1:19-cv-01041 (W.D. Mich. Aug. 11, 2023). A proposed agreed modification to a consent decree governs how a settling CERCLA defendant will pay response costs and perform response work at the Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund site in Michigan.

EPA proposed to enter into an administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA with Seven Seas Terminals, LLC, concerning removal action at the Mississippi Phosphates Corp. Superfund site.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA and RCRA with El Monte SS Properties, LLC, that would require the settling party to perform a removal action and pay response costs associated with the San Gabriel Valley Superfund site in El Monte, California.

EPA supplemented proposed revisions to Louisiana's Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program to approve a revision to the state's SDWA §1422 UIC program to include Class VI injection well primary enforcement responsibility.

EPA approved revisions to Nevada's state primacy program under the SDWA that adopted regulations effectuating the Federal Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule.