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.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the availability of the proposed notice of sale for the proposed Gulf of Mexico regionwide outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sale 259 as required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

United States v. Vigor Industrial, LLC, No. 3:22-cv-06101 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 17, 2022). Settling National Marine Sanctuaries Act defendants must pay $9,135,134.80 to resolve a claim arising from injury to sanctuary resources that occurred due to the sinking of the YFD-70 Drydock on October 25-26, 2016, inside the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

United States v. Pozsgai, No. 88-6545 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 14, 2022). Under a proposed consent decree concerning settling CWA defendants' discharge of pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States, the owner of an adjacent property that has entered into a purchase agreement for the affected property must restore a significant portion of the impacted areas and protect surrounding woodlands.

United States v. Enbridge Energy, L.P., No. 1:16-cv-914 (W.D. Mich. Oct. 12, 2022). A proposed modification of a consent decree concerning two 2010 oil spills that resulted from oil transmission pipeline failures near Marshall, Michigan, and Romeoville, Illinois, would establish requirements and procedures by which settling CWA and OPA defendants may seek partial termination of specified obligations under the decree; explicitly designate specified pipeline segments on Lines 61 and 62 as “replacement segments” that are subject to additional leak detection system-related requirements; establish deadlines applicable to the resumption of in-line inspections on Line 62 following a long period when that pipeline was not in service; and confirm that defendants will not be required to perform axial crack in-line inspections on the dual pipelines and associated piping prior to expiration of a time period that corresponds to one-half of the estimated remaining fatigue life of the worst potential axial crack feature that could have survived the 2017 hydrostatic pressure tests.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the availability of the proposed notice of sale for the proposed Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale 258 as required by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.