The Federal Highway Administration seeks public input on the implementation of §60505, Environmental Review Implementation Funds, of the Inflation Reduction Act.

SIP Approval: West Virginia (disapproval of revisions to establish, at the discretion of the Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, an alternative emission limitation (AEL) for a source that requests an AEL).

EPA found that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection failed to timely submit a SIP revision to address the deficiencies identified in the Agency’s 2015 findings of substantial inadequacy and SIP calls for provisions applying to excess emissions during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction.  

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management increased the Oil Pollution Act offshore facility limit of liability for damages from $137,659,500 to $167,806,900.

United States v. San Diego, California, County of, No. 3:22-cv-01753-JO-NLS (S.D. Cal. Apr. 7, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must undertake a non-time-critical removal action to address site contamination and reimburse the United States’ past and future response costs in connection with releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances at or from the Ramona Burn Dump Site in San Diego County, California, in the Palomar Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.

SIP Proposal: California (revisions concerning emissions of particulate matter from wood burning devices in the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District).

SIP Proposal: Missouri (revisions regarding restricting particulate matter to the ambient air beyond the premises of origin).

In re Maxus Energy Corp., No. 16-11501(CTG) (Bankr. D. Del. Apr. 7, 2023). Under a proposed settlement agreement, settling CERCLA and RCRA defendants must pay $185 million to resolve claims concerning response actions and natural resource damages at Superfund sites in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Kearny, New Jersey; Painesville, Ohio; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

EPA approved the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.

EPA seeks public input and data to assist in the consideration of potential development of future regulations pertaining to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances under CERCLA.