EPA announced the availability of revised guidelines for eligible recipients (states, territories, and the District of Columbia) awarded federal grants under §319 of the CWA for the implementation of nonpoint source management programs.

United States v. Westchester Joint Water Works, No. 24 Civ. 4783 (S.D.N.Y. June 24, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling SDWA defendants that violated maximum contaminant level set by EPA for certain disinfectant byproducts in drinking water, as well as a related administrative order requiring construction of a water filtration plant by specified deadlines, must (1) build and commence operation of a drinking water filtration plant by July 1, 2029; (2) implement measures to ensure the safety of its water supply until the filtration plant is operational; (3) pay a total of $1,250,000 in civil penalties; and (4) spend at least $900,000 on a supplemental environmental project to improve source water quality and at least $6,800,000 on two state water quality benefit projects. 

SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (revisions establishing reasonably available control technology requirements for the 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS for each category of volatile organic compound sources covered by EPA’s 2016 control techniques guidelines for the oil and gas industry). 

EPA approved the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s request to update the method of delegations and continue the delegations of authority to implement and enforce NESHAPs and NESHAPs for source categories. 

EPA proposed amendments to several new source performance standards and NESHAPs under the CAA; the amendments would remove the affirmative defense provisions associated with violation of emission standards due to malfunctions.

SIP Proposal: Indiana (revision to monitoring and compliance requirements for certain process heater stacks at Safety-Kleen Oil Recovery Company in Lake County). 

SIP Proposal: Idaho (miscellaneous changes).

United States v. Pope Resources, No. 3:24-cv-05470 (W.D. Wash. June 13, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree concerning the release of hazardous substances from the former Pope & Talbot sawmill facility in Kitsap County, Washington, settling CERCLA and CWA defendants must construct, implement, maintain, and monitor a habitat restoration project; fund future long-term maintenance, monitoring, and stewardship of the project; and pay past and estimated future costs for natural resource damages assessment and restoration implementation and oversight. 

EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for the Arkansas 2020 §303(d) list, and seeks comment on those additions. 

EPA granted a request from the governor of Texas to voluntarily reclassify the San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria ozone nonattainment areas from moderate to serious for the 2015 ozone NAAQS.