DOD, the General Services Administration, and NASA proposed to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to restructure and update the regulations to focus on current environmental and sustainability matters and to implement a requirement for agencies to procure sustainable products and services to the maximum extent practicable.

The Office of Management and Budget seeks comment on proposed guidance for assessing changes in environmental and ecosystem services in benefit-cost analysis.

United States v. Jackson, Mississippi, City of, No. 3:12-cv-790-HTW-LGI (S.D. Miss. July 26, 2023). A proposed stipulated order under the CWA places the operation of the sewer system of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, under the control of an interim third-party manager and requires the manager to perform substantial work, including addressing more than 200 emergency sewer failure locations, addressing prohibited bypasses of treatment prior to discharging wastewater into the Pearl River, and implementing management, operations, and maintenance programs.

United States v. Robert Yundt Homes, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-00073-JMK (D. Alaska July 24, 2023). Settling CWA defendants that discharged pollutants into waters of the United States without a permit must restore impacted areas, perform mitigation pursuant to EPA-approved restoration plans, and pay a civil penalty.

The federal agencies issued their semiannual regulatory agendas to update the public about regulations currently under development, reviews of existing regulations with small business impacts, and regulations completed or canceled since the last agenda. EPA’s agenda can be found at 88 FR 48598.

United States v. Brock Maslonka, No. 2:20-cv-304-SAB, (E.D. Wash. July 14, 2023). A settling CWA defendant must restore impacted areas, perform mitigation, and pay a civil penalty for discharging pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States.

NMFS seeks stakeholder input to inform the operationalization of the national Equity and Environmental Justice Strategy in the Southeast region.

The Office of Natural Resources Revenue republished and revised certain subparts of its regulations to implement an order and judgment from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming that vacated the federal and Indian coal valuation provisions of the 2016 Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform rule.

EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for West Virginia’s Combined 2018-2020-2022 Section 303(d) list and seeks comment on those additions.

EPA Region 10 proposed to modify the NPDES general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations in Idaho excluding tribal lands.