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. 

United States v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co., LLC, No. 2:22-cv-48 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 3, 2022). A settling CERCLA defendant that released hazardous substances at the Town of Pines Superfund site in Porter County, Indiana, must pay $619,632.16 of the United State's response costs already incurred, pay future costs incurred by the United States and Indiana, and perform the remedial action EPA selected at the site at an estimated cost of $11.8 million.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA that resolves the settling parties' liability at the Former C-Brite Metal Finishing Facility site in Harbor City, California, in exchange for a lump-sum payment of $100,000 that will be used to fund response actions at the site.