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Reporting And Registration Under ARRA

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.25.09

Contractors receiving American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds are required to register and file quarterly electronic reports with the Government. After considerable delay, the government announced today that contractors may begin registering at federalreporting.gov and encouraged early registration, even though the full electronic reporting tool will not be available until October 1, 2009.

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Client Alert | 5 min read | 08.26.26

D.C. Circuit Upholds Designation of PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances

In a significant and unanimous ruling, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”) as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), denying the petitions of seven industry groups seeking to overturn that designation.[1] CERCLA, also known as the “Superfund Statute,” allows EPA to require potentially responsible parties to fund cleanup of hazardous substances....