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EPA announced the availability of 2011 Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act grants for coastal recreation water monitoring and public notification programs.
EPA announced the availability of 2011 Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act grants for coastal recreation water monitoring and public notification programs.
EPA announced issuance of the final NPDES general permit for discharges incidental to the normal operation of vessels for Pennsylvania and Iowa.
EPA entered into five proposed settlements under CERCLA that require the parties to pay U.S. response costs incurred at the Ward Transformer Superfund site in Raleigh, North Carolina.
United States v. City of Newburgh, No. 08 Civ. 7378 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 30, 2010). Under a modified consent decree, 27 additional settling CERCLA parties responsible for the transportation of hazardous scrap metal materials to the Consolidated Iron and Metal Co. Superfund site in Newburgh, New York, must pay $276,655 to both the United States and to five of the parties to the original consent decree.
EPA gave tentative approval to Wisconsin's public water system supervision program, which does not cover Indian country.
EPA proposed to approve revisions to South Dakota's hazardous waste management program.
United States v. Eastwood Construction, LLC, No. 3:11-cv-83 (W.D.N.C. Feb. 15, 2011). Settling CWA defendants responsible for permit violations at residential construction sites in North Carolina and South Carolina must pay a $60,000 civil penalty and must undertake compliance programs to reduce the threat of stormwater discharges at the sites.
United States v. Beazer East, Inc., No. 11-cv-1124 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 16, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Crater Resources Superfund site in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, must pay $1,380,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site.
United States v. Rutherford Oil Corp., No. 3:08-cv-231 (S.D. Tex. Feb. 2, 2011). Settling CWA defendants that discharged pollutants into waters of the United States without a permit must pay a civil penalty and must conduct a restoration project.
United States v. Orval Kent Food Co., Inc., No. 2:11-cv-02057-JAR-JPO (D. Kan. Jan. 31, 2011). A settling CWA defendant responsible for discharges into a POTW in Baxter Springs, Kansas, must pay a $390,000 civil penalty, must increase monitoring of its discharges and install additional treatment, if necessary, and must undertake a fish restocking project at a cost of $32,500.