EPA proposed to authorize changes to Hawaii's hazardous waste management program under RCRA. 

EPA authorized Hawaii's changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA. 

United States v. Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp., No. 0:22-CV-00029-HRW (E.D. Ky. Apr. 13, 2022). A settling defendant that violated RCRA nine times at a former coke production facility in Ashland, Kentucky, between 2010 and 2012 must pay a $490,000 civil penalty, conduct site-wide sampling and analysis, and clean up four specific locations at the facility. 

EPA proposed amendments that integrate electronic manifests with hazardous waste exports and other manifest-related reports under RCRA and amendments to manifest regulations for PCBs under TSCA.

United States v. Genesis Petroleum, Inc., No. 19-cv-3340 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 24, 2022). Settling RCRA defendants that violated regulations governing USTs at 13 facilities in New York and New Jersey must ensure and maintain compliance at 29 facilities they own and/or operate and pay a civil penalty of $250,000. 

United States v. North Slope Borough, No. 3:22-cv-00059-JWS (D. Alaska Mar. 16, 2022). A settling RCRA and CWA defendant that violated solid and hazardous waste management practices and failed to implement spill prevention control and countermeasure (SPCC) plans must close all unpermitted hazardous waste storage facilities; minimize generation and ensure proper tracking and management of solid and hazardous waste; build or retrofit a permitted hazardous waste storage facility; revise its SPCC plans; install adequate secondary containment around oil storage containers; develop an integrity testing program for oil storage containers; and pay a civil penalty of $6.5 million. 

EPA proposed to authorize changes to Illinois' hazardous waste management program under RCRA. 

EPA announced a response to a petition requesting amendments to the non-hazardous secondary materials regulations under RCRA; the Agency proposed to deny the requested amendments and to revise the definition of "paper recycling residuals" to set a numerical limit on the amount of non-fiber materials that may be included for the residuals to be considered a non-waste fuel.

United States v. To Go Stores, LLC, No. 3:22-cv-1038 (D.P.R. Jan. 21, 2022). A settling RCRA defendant that violated regulations governing USTs at 15 gas stations must install new tanks, install and operate a centralized monitoring system and new release detection equipment, and pay a civil penalty of $125,000.

EPA proposed to grant a petition to delist up to 3,500 cubic yards of U019 (benzene) and U220 (toluene) industrial wastewater biological solids per year from the list of federal hazardous wastes under RCRA.