EPA authorized revisions to Louisiana's hazardous waste program under RCRA.

EPA gave final authorization to Minnesota's hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA issued revised land disposal restriction treatment standards for hazardous wastes from the production of carbamates and carbamate commercial chemical products.

EPA proposed to approve revisions to North Carolina's hazardous waste management program; see above for direct final rule.

vUnited States v. Western Reman Industrial Inc., No. 11-cv-00008 (N.D. Ind. Jan. 10, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the former Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, must pay $300,000 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the site.

United States v. Lookout Mountain Mining & Milling Co., No. 11-0029 (D. Idaho Jan. 25, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund site in northern Idaho must assign their interest in insurance policies to a trust and must pay 2% of net smelter returns from future activities.

United States v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co., No. 1:07-cv-1793 (W.D. La. Jan. 21, 2011). Under a modified 2008 consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant's cleanup at the Ruston Foundry Superfund site in Alexandria, Louisiana, will permit unrestricted use of the site.

United States v. Blue Tee Corp., No. 5:11-civ-04004 (D. Kan. Jan. 14, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at three smelting facilities in Kansas must pay trustees a total of $180,298.27 in past assessment costs, future restoration planning costs, and operation and maintenance costs and must arrange for the purchase and transfer of a specified 80-acre parcel of property to offset injured, lost, and destroyed natural resources.

United States v. Seven Out LLC, No. 3:11-cv-0009-UAMH-MCR (M.D. Fla. Jan. 5, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the BCX Tank Superfund site in Jacksonville, Florida, must pay $350,000 to the United States through their insurer and must pay the net proceeds from the sale of the site property to the United States.

In re Crucible Materials Corp., No. 09-11582 (Bankr. D. Del. Jan. 7, 2011). Settling CERCLA debtors responsible for violations at five sites in Onondaga County, New York, must provide the United States with general unsecured claims totaling $999,539; one debtor must provide an additional general unsecured claim of $20,564,000 in connection with one of the sites.