A proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA requires settling defendants to pay the United States and Delaware $1,071,755.84 in connection with the alleged release of hazardous substances from two manufacturing facilities in New Castle County, Delaware, leading to injury to, impairment of, destruction of, loss of, diminution of value of, and/or loss of use of natural resources.

United States v. Hastings, City of, No. 8:03-cv-00531, and United States v. Dravo Corp., No. 8:01-cv-00500 (D. Neb. Dec. 7, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1,439,336 to EPA for response costs incurred and to be incurred by the Agency for Operable Units 01 and 19 of the Hastings Groundwater Contamination Superfund site.

United States v. Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co., No. 3:15-cv-2328 (D.P.R. Dec. 6, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant must reimburse EPA for $11 million of its past response costs at the Maunabo Groundwater Superfund site in Maunabo, Puerto Rico.

EPA took direct final action on the authorization of Delaware’s changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA proposed to authorize changes to Delaware’s hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

United States v. Container Life Cycle Management, LLC, No. 22-cv-01423 (E.D. Wis. Nov. 30, 2022).  A settling RCRA and CAA defendant, in connection with violations at its container reconditioning facilities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, must pay a $1.6 million civil penalty; implement a container management plan for a two-year period; continuously operate a previously installed regenerative thermal oxidizer at and construct additional emissions capture systems within the St. Francis facility; install and continuously operate a new digital data recorder to record the temperature of the drum reclamation furnace afterburner and maintain an afterburner temperature at or above 1,650 degrees at the Oak Creek facility; and conduct performance testing at both facilities.

EPA proposed to add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances subject to reporting under EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 to the List of Lower Thresholds for Chemicals of Special Concern.

EPA added 12 chemicals to the list of toxic chemicals subject to the reporting requirements under EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act.

United States v. Aerosols Danville, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-405 (D.R.I. Nov. 9, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must perform remedial actions for Operable Unit 2 at the Landfill & Resource Recovery, Inc. Superfund site in North Smithfield, Rhode Island, fully reimburse the state of Rhode Island for its future response costs, and reimburse the United States for a portion of its future site-related response costs.

EPA Region 8 proposed an amendment to a prospective purchaser agreement originally agreed to in 1994 for the Anaconda Smelter Superfund site in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County, Montana, that would provide for the implementation of updated institutional controls and updated operations and maintenance plans.