On Friday January 23, 2015 the $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for environmental and tort claims went into effect.

This is the largest environmental settlement ever brought by the United States government and resolves the fraudulent conveyance lawsuit pursued by the Department of Justice. From this settlement NOAA, FWS, and the State of North Carolina will receive more than $22 million for natural resource damages for releases from the Kerr-McGee/Tronox site in Navassa, NC. Damages to natural resources were the result of creosote-wood treating that took place on the site from the 1930s until the mid-1970s. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the wood treating have been found at elevated levels in on-site soils, groundwater and Sturgeon Creek sediments.

For further information, contact OR&R POC - Michel.Gielazyn@noaa.gov, or Restoration Center POC - Howard.Schnabolk@noaa.gov.

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