On January 3, 2019, Judge Goodwin of the District Court of the Southern District of West Virginia granted DOJ's Unopposed Motion to Enter the Consent Decree and entered the parties? settlement providing for a civil penalty to resolve CSX Transportation's ( CSXT's ) alleged violations of the Clean Water Act ( CWA ), the West Virginia ( WV ) Groundwater Protection Act, and the WV Water Pollution Control Act. The Consent Decree resolves alleged violations that stemmed from the derailment of 27 of CSXT's railcars, each transporting approximately 29,000 gallons of Bakken crude oil, in Mount Carbon, West Virginia on February 16, 2015 and the subsequent discharge of oil from the railcars into the nearby Kanawha River and Armstrong Creek, and their adjoining shorelines (the Derailment ). The Consent Decree requires CSXT to pay penalties of $1.2 million to the U.S. and $1 million to West Virginia for resolution of the alleged state and federal violations. Additionally, the Consent Decree includes a state supplemental environmental project ( state SEP ) requiring CSXT to contribute $500,000 to a state-created and controlled escrow fund to upgrade a water treatment facility in Fayette County, West Virginia. Two mayors of towns located near Mount Carbon and a West Virginia Congressman publicly commented on the then-proposed Consent Decree, requesting that funds be allocated to the towns to reimburse them for resources expended in responding to the Derailment. The Court considered th