.On November 29, 2017, Judge Bennett of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, entered the CD in the above captioned matter. During the lodging period, the United States did not receive any public comments, and thus moved for entry as a matter of course. Under the proposed Consent Decree, 13 Settling Performing Defendants have agreed to finance and perform the remedial action selected by EPA for the Site in accordance with a September 2013 Record of Decision (?ROD?) valued at $51.5 million; to finance and perform restoration work to remedy injury to natural resources at the Site valued at approximately $500,000.00; to fund a restoration project off-Site to compensate for loss of natural resources at the Site valued at $630,000.00; to pay $240,000.00 to the Trustees for Past Trustee Natural Resource Damage Assessment Costs, and to pay $250,000.00 to the Trustees for Future Trustee Oversight Costs. In accordance with the Interim Guidance on Orphan Share Compensation for Settlors of Remedial Design/Remedial Action and Non-Time-Critical Removals, dated June 4, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the ?Orphan Share Guidance?) the Settling Defendants will not be obligated to pay EPA?s Past Costs of $2,460,143.30 (as of November 22, 2016), or its Future Oversight Costs estimated to be $1.5 million, but will pay EPA?s Future Response Costs as those terms are defined in the Consent Decree. As an incentive to settlement, EPA has also agreed to pay the Settling