EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA that requires a prospective lessee and purchaser of the Former C-Brite Metal Finishing Facility site in Harbor City, California, to perform a portion of the removal work at the site and to pay $80,000 for the Agency's oversight costs.

EPA proposed to amend the Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries to reference ASTM International's E1527-21 "Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process" and allow for its use to satisfy the requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under CERCLA.

EPA amended the Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries to reference ASTM International's E1527-21 "Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process" and allow for its use to satisfy the requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under CERCLA. 

EPA Region 8 announced a proposed bona fide prospective purchaser settlement agreement that provides for the purchaser to perform a removal action and pay certain response costs incurred by the United States in connection with the Vasquez Boulevard and Interstate 70 Superfund site.

EPA proposed to enter into an administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA that addresses the recovery of costs for cleanup actions at the Welch Group Environmental Fair Play Superfund site in Fair Play, South Carolina.

United States v. Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor LLC, No. 22-CV-26 (N.D. Ind. Feb. 14, 2022). Settling defendants that exceeded discharge pollution limits for cyanide and ammonia, failed to report those cyanide and ammonia releases under EPCRA and CERCLA, and violated other CWA and permit terms must complete two environmentally beneficial projects in Indiana, pay a civil penalty of $3 million, and take a number of measures to come into compliance with the law, including operating ammonia and cyanide treatment systems and improving pollution control system reliability. 

A proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA requires settling defendants to perform a non-time critical removal action to remove mercury-contaminated sediments at the Pierson's Creek Superfund site in Newark, New Jersey, and to reimburse EPA for costs incurred in overseeing this work. 

United States v. Inmont Corp., No. 86-0029-B (D. Me. Jan. 24, 2022). A proposed amendment to a 1986 consent decree modifies the decree to make it consistent with a 2019 amendment to a 1985 record of decision concerning settling CERCLA defendants' remedial action at the Winthrop Landfill Superfund site in Winthrop, Maine.

In re Gold King Mine Release in San Juan County, Colorado, No. 1:18-md-02824-WJ (D.N.M. Jan. 20, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants that released or threatened release of hazardous substances at the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund site in San Juan County, Colorado, must pay $45 million for response costs, and the United States must pay $45 million to appropriate federal accounts for response costs at the site. 

DOJ entered into a proposed settlement agreement related to the release of fracking fluids into Acorn Fork, Kentucky, that requires the settling CERCLA defendant to pay $1,734,635.70 to DOI and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.