88 FR 6257
EPA entered into a proposed settlement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Logan Street Mercury Response site in Ada County, Idaho.
EPA entered into a proposed settlement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Logan Street Mercury Response site in Ada County, Idaho.
EPA announced a proposed administrative cost settlement for recovery of response costs concerning the Sessions Clock site in Bristol, Hartford County, Connecticut.
DOI reassigned responsibilities for the administration of certain regulations governing renewable energy development and alternate uses of existing facilities on the outer continental shelf, transferring them from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
United States v. Lynden, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00101 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 24, 2023). Settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants that released hazardous substances and discharged oil from facilities along and near the Lower Duwamish River must pay $556,250 for natural resource damages; purchase restoration credits in a restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River by a project developer to serve as a restoration credit bank; and pay their equitable share of assessment costs.
The Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the Interagency Policy Working Group on Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions, announced the availability of a finalized strategic plan on statistics for environmental-economic decisions.
EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of past response costs concerning the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River and Bay site in Michigan.
EPA proposed to grant an exclusion from the list of hazardous wastes to ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery located in Baytown, Texas, to exclude up to 730 cubic yards per year of sludges removed from the wastewater treatment plant from the list of federal hazardous wastes when disposed of in a Subtitle D Landfill under RCRA.
EPA proposed to grant an exclusion from the list of hazardous wastes to ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery located in Baytown, Texas, to exclude up to 2,409 cubic yards per year of API separator sludge from the list of federal hazardous wastes when disposed of in a Subtitle D Landfill under RCRA.
United States v. Formosa Plastics Corp., Texas, No. 09-00061 (S.D. Tex. Jan. 11, 2023). A proposed second amendment to a consent decree requires settling RCRA defendants to cease treating the recovered groundwater on site, and instead send the recovered wastewater off site to a RCRA permitted hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility, and clean the wastewater treatment system to eliminate hazardous waste residue.
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft white paper entitled “Availability of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP),” developed pursuant to the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which requires the Agency to develop a screening program, to determine whether certain substances may have an effect in humans that is similar to an effect produced by a naturally occurring estrogen, or other endocrine effects.