The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement increased the maximum daily civil penalty assessment for OCSLA violations to $40,000 and the maximum daily civil penalty assessment for violations of its financial responsibility regulations to $30,000.

EPA approved 11 alternative testing methods for use in measuring the levels of contaminants in drinking water.

vUnited States v. Western Reman Industrial Inc., No. 11-cv-00008 (N.D. Ind. Jan. 10, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the former Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, must pay $300,000 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the site.

United States v. Lookout Mountain Mining & Milling Co., No. 11-0029 (D. Idaho Jan. 25, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund site in northern Idaho must assign their interest in insurance policies to a trust and must pay 2% of net smelter returns from future activities.

United States v. Winchester Municipal Utilities, No. 06-102-KSF (E.D. Ky. Jan. 19, 2011). Under a modified 2007 consent decree, a settling CWA defendant responsible for stormwater runoff pollution into the Lower Howards Creek Watershed must spend $203,000 on a watershed management plan that replaces the original supplemental environmental project.

United States v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co., No. 1:07-cv-1793 (W.D. La. Jan. 21, 2011). Under a modified 2008 consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant's cleanup at the Ruston Foundry Superfund site in Alexandria, Louisiana, will permit unrestricted use of the site.

United States v. City of Evansville, No. 3:09-CV-128 (S.D. Ind. Jan. 6, 2011). A settling CWA defendant responsible for violations in the operation of its municipal wastewater and sewer system must pay a $420,000 civil penalty to the United States and a $70,000 civil penalty to Indiana, must spend an estimated $4 million to connect homes with failing septic systems to the city's sewer system, and must remedy the deficiencies in the sewer system at a cost that may exceed $500 million no later than 2037.

United States v. Seven Out LLC, No. 3:11-cv-0009-UAMH-MCR (M.D. Fla. Jan. 5, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the BCX Tank Superfund site in Jacksonville, Florida, must pay $350,000 to the United States through their insurer and must pay the net proceeds from the sale of the site property to the United States.

In re Crucible Materials Corp., No. 09-11582 (Bankr. D. Del. Jan. 7, 2011). Settling CERCLA debtors responsible for violations at five sites in Onondaga County, New York, must provide the United States with general unsecured claims totaling $999,539; one debtor must provide an additional general unsecured claim of $20,564,000 in connection with one of the sites.

United States v. Domtar Paper Co. LLC, No. 4:11-cv-00002 (E.D.N.C. Jan. 3, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $3.2 million in U.S. response costs incurred at the Plymouth Wood Treating Plant Superfund site near Plymouth, North Carolina, before March 27, 2009, as well as any subsequent U.S. response costs, and must perform the remedial design and action specified in a September 24, 2008, record of decision.