EPA authorized Vermont’s changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA proposed to authorize changes to Vermont’s hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CWA and APA in Cape Fear River Watch v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:22-cv-03809 (D.D.C.), in connection with its alleged failure to perform duties mandated by the CWA to revise the effluent limitations guidelines and promulgate pretreatment standards for the meat and poultry products industrial category.

United States v. Honeywell International Inc., No. 5:23-cv-00059 (N.D.W. Va. Feb. 22, 2023). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay for all future EPA and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection response costs and reimburse $534,165 of the United States’ past response costs in connection with the release of hazardous substances at the Hanlin-Allied-Olin Superfund site in Moundsville, West Virginia.

DOT established regulations setting minimum standards and requirements for projects funded under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and projects for the construction of publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) chargers under certain statutory authorities, including any EV charging infrastructure project funded with federal funds that is treated as a project on a federal-aid highway.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA involving a mixed work and funding agreement, including a proposed compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct and indirect EPA costs associated with the Agency’s contribution to the implementation of a removal action at the Mansell Field Site in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

EPA finalized guidance on petitions for a no migration variance (NMV) under the land disposal restrictions pursuant to RCRA for persons applying for a NMV for a waste pile temporarily located within a RCRA-permitted Subtitle C landfill cell.

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 11286.

EPA approved the Delaware Division of Public Health's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under RCRA in Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:22-cv-2562-JDB (D.D.C.), that would establish deadlines for the Agency to sign proposed and final actions pertaining to allegations that EPA failed to perform its non-discretionary duty to review and revise a regulation that exempts inactive coal combustion residuals (CCR) landfills from the CCR disposal regulations.