A settling CWA and RCRA defendant that failed to comply with regulations governing the handling of wastewater and hazardous wastes at a centralized waste treatment and used oil recycling facility in Hodgkins, Illinois, must pay a $250,000 civil penalty and must perform injunctive relief.

Settling CWA defendants responsible for permit violations at 14 locations in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia must pay a $455,000 civil penalty and must implement a companywide stormwater compliance program to improve future compliance.

 A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $8.75 million in partial reimbursement of past U.S. response costs incurred at the Centredale Manor Restoration Project Superfund site in North Providence, Rhode Island, based on an ability to pay analysis.

Under a partial CERCLA settlement, two defendants responsible for PCB contamination in sediment at the Lower Fox River and Green Bay Superfund site in northeastern Wisconsin must fund and perform an estimated $67 million in sediment remediation work at the site during the current year.

A settling CWA defendant that violated the requirements of its NPDES stormwater permit at two highway construction and improvement sites in Missouri must pay a $750,000 civil penalty and must institute certain procedures and policies to enhance its compliance with those requirements.

A settling CWA defendant responsible for unauthorized discharges of pollutants into waters of the United States and Mississippi and for noncompliance with NPDES permit conditions must pay a $475,000 penalty to the United States and Mississippi and must perform extensive injunctive relief to comply with standard operating procedures and employee training policy.

A settling CAA defendant that violated PSD and Title V permit provisions and CAA implementing regulations at three carbon black manufacturing facilities in Phenix City, Alabama, Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Sunray, Texas, must pay a $650,000 civil penalty, must reduce harmful sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and particulate matter emissions through the installation and operation of pollution controls, and must spend $550,000 on environmental mitigation projects in communities adversely affected by the pollution.

A settling RCRA defendant that violated UST control regulations at 31 facilities in Puerto Rico and at four facilities in the U.S. Virgin Islands must pay a $426,000 penalty, must implement injunctive relief valued at approximately $1,000,000, and must undertake a supplemental environmental project valued at approximately $600,000.

Under an amendment to a 1998 consent decree, settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the United Scrap Lead Superfund site in Troy, Ohio, must pay a cash-out amount of $158,564, must dismiss their challenge to oversight bills, and must waive their right to share proceeds generated from the sale of the site; in exchange, defendants will be excused from paying any additional oversight costs, from conducting any periodic studies for EPA, and from using best efforts for access to the site by third parties.