Company: OC
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-022858
Chunk: 134

Company: Owens Corning
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 134
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 global reductions in energy use, water consumption, waste to landfill, and emissions of greenhouse gases, fine particulate matter, and volatile organic air emissions and protection of biodiversity.Owens Corning is involved in remedial response activities and is responsible for environmental remediation at a number of sites, including certain of its currently owned or formerly owned plants. These responsibilities arise under a number of laws, including, but not limited to, the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and similar state or local laws pertaining to the management and remediation of hazardous materials and petroleum. The Company has also been named a potentially responsible party under the U.S. Federal Superfund law, similar state or local laws pertaining to the management and remediation of hazardous materials and petroleum. The Company became involved in these sites as a result of government action or in connection with business acquisitions. As of March 31, 2025, the Company was involved with a total of 25 sites worldwide, including 10 Superfund and state or country equivalent sites and 15 owned or formerly owned sites. None of the liabilities for these sites are individually significant to the Company.Remediation activities generally involve a potential range of activities and costs related to soil, groundwater and sediment contamination. This can include pre-cleanup activities such as fact-finding and investigation, risk assessment, feasibility studies, remedial action design and implementation (where actions may range from monitoring to removal of contaminants, to installation of longer-term remediation systems). A number of factors affect the cost of environmental remediation, including the number of parties involved in a particular site, the determination of the extent of contamination, the length of time the remediation may require, the complexity of environmental regulations, variability in clean-up standards, the need for legal 

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action and changes in remediation technology. Taking these factors into account, Owens Corning reasonably estimates the costs of remediation to be paid over a period of years. The Company accrues an amount on an undiscounted basis, when a liability is probable and reasonably estimable. Actual cost may differ from these estimates for the reasons mentioned above. At March 31, 2025, the Company had an accrual totaling $4 million for these costs, of which the current portion is $2 million. Changes in required remediation procedures or timing of those procedures, or discovery of contamination at additional sites, could