EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under a proposed prospective purchaser agreement pursuant to CERCLA and RCRA concerning the Buick City site in Flint, Michigan.

EPA seeks comment on implementation of a plan to ensure that farmworkers have access to bilingual pesticide labeling by December 2025 under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022.

EPA seeks comment on the draft Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) Guidelines for Planning and Problem Formulation, which describe steps for the planning and problem formulation of CRAs and offer guidelines for when they could be appropriate.

EPA announced a proposed consent decree that resolves Center for Food Safety v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 4:22-cv-6001-JST (N.D. Cal.), alleging the Agency unreasonably delayed responding to a petition for rulemaking, submitted to EPA on or around July 10, 2017, relating to the revision of testing requirements of pesticides prior to registration.

United States v. Great Lakes Synergy Corp., No. 3:23-cv-01934 (S.D. Ohio June 6, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant that released and threatened releases of hazardous substances at Area 7 of the Additional and Uncharacterized Sites Operable Unit of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge NPL Site near Marion, Illinois, must perform removal actions to clean up the area, reimburse future response costs incurred by the United States, and reimburse $830,890 in past response costs incurred by the United States.

United States v. New York, City of, No. 1:23-CV-4129 (E.D.N.Y. June 5, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1.6 million for past costs incurred by EPA and fund and perform remedial work, including the removal of soil and sediments exhibiting levels exceeding the remediation goals in the impacted sewers and beneath the roadway and sidewalks, at the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company Superfund site in Ridgewood, New York.

United States v. Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00867-MJH (W.D. Pa. May 24, 2023). Settling CWA, CAA, and RCRA defendants must perform injunctive relief, including conducting a third-party environmental audit, implementing effluent limit violations response requirements, performing facility specific work and repairs, completing comprehensive stormwater and groundwater control plans, and implementing a RCRA-based training program and daily inspection requirements; as well as pay a $2.4 million civil penalty in connection with alleged violations at a hydrocarbon resins manufacturing facility in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania.

EPA proposed to enter into 49 individual settlements with 53 parties under CERCLA to address recovery of costs for a cleanup that was performed at the Bennett Landfill Fire site in Chester, South Carolina.

FEMA seeks input on implementation of the Community Disaster Resilience Zones Act of 2022, including updates to the methodology and data used for the National Risk Index and any other hazard assessment products; potential improvements to FEMA’s provision of hazard data; the process used to designate community disaster resilience zones; financial and technical assistance for resilience or mitigation projects primarily benefitting community disaster resilience zones; and the community disaster resilience zone project application and certification process.

The Army Corps of Engineers finalized a rule implementing a new credit assistance program for safety projects to maintain, upgrade, and repair dams identified in the National Inventory of Dams with a primary owner type of state, local government, public utility, or private.