On September 7, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered the Second Amendment of Consent Decree in the Matter of U.S. and Commonwealth of PA v. Bristol Township, Civil No. 2:10-cv-05049-WY (E.D.) The original Consent Decree, entered in January 2011, required Bristol to remedy violations of Sections 301 and 402 of the CWA, 33 U.S.C. ?? 1311 and 1342, and Sections 201and 202 of the Clean Streams Law, 35 P.S. ?? 691.201 and 691.202 (?CSL?), after failing to comply with its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (?NPDES?) permit administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (?PADEP?) under the CWA and CSL. Bristol should have begun work under the Consent Decree in July 2012 with the completion of an Evaluation of Treatment Alternatives (?ETA?), followed by completion and implementation of a Capital Improvement Plan (?CIP?), the construction of which should have been completed in 2015. However, serious administrative and personnel management issues and serial issues that plagued plant operations such as a recurring hydraulic overload resulted in the parties First Amendment to Consent Decree in 2014, extending the deadlines for Bristol to complete the ETA and subsequent construction upgrades to the Facility. Again, Bristol failed to meet its deadlines, finally providing the ETA in the summer of 2018. The delay was partially due to Bristol?s decision to pursue a waiver of certain permitting provisions that