FWS, DOJ, and a potentially responsible party signed a proposed non-judicial interim settlement and crediting agreement under CERCLA that provides for the completion of natural resource restoration work in return for a $73.5 million credit to offset liability for natural resource damages at the Diamond Alkali Superfund site in East Newark, New Jersey, and Berry's Creek Study Area in Bergen County, New Jersey.

United States v. Cornell Dubilier Electronics, Inc., No. 2:22-cv-03245 (D.N.J. May 31, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $4 million, plus applicable interest, in connection with the Woodbrook Road Dump Superfund site in South Plainfield, New Jersey. 

United States v. AVX Corp., Nos. 83-3882-Y and 83-3889-Y (D. Mass. May 31, 2022). A proposed supplemental consent decree requires settling CERCLA defendants to make a $4 million cash payment in addition to the approximately $21 million the defendants already paid under the original 1992 consent decree to resolve their liability for response costs and injunctive relief in connection with New Bedford Harbor Superfund site in Bristol County, Massachusetts. 

United States v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co., No. 6:22-cv-00035-SEH (D. Mont. May 23, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants that released hazardous substances at the East Helena Superfund site in East Helena, Montana, must expend an estimated $852,200 to remediate an active railyard within the site and reimburse EPA's costs of overseeing their work.

United States v. Chemical Waste Management, No. 3:22-cv-132 (S.D. Ohio May 19, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must clean up contamination at an estimated cost of $27.7 million, pay past response costs, and compensate the United States for any future oversight costs in connection with the Tremont Barrel Fill Superfund site in German Township, Ohio. 

EPA announced grant funding guidance for fiscal year 2022 CERCLA state and tribal response programs with funding provided by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

EPA Region 8 entered into a proposed prospective purchaser settlement agreement under CERCLA that requires the purchaser to perform a removal action and pay certain response costs incurred by the United States at or in connection with certain areas of the Idaho Pole Company Superfund site in Bozeman, Montana. 

EPA Region 8 entered into a proposed prospective purchaser settlement agreement under CERCLA that requires the purchaser to perform a removal action and pay certain response costs incurred by the United States and Colorado at or in connection with Operable Units 3 and 6 of the Sand Creek Industrial Superfund site. 

EPA entered into two proposed administrative settlements under CERCLA concerning the U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc. site in East Chicago, Indiana, that require the purchaser to perform remedial action on a portion of the site and the respondents to pay $18,000,000 in past response costs. 

United States v. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., No. 22-cv-02101 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 12, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay $35,000,000 to address historical operations at the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Bethpage, New York, and adjacent former facilities owned and operated by the defendants' predecessors.