Company: NPO
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001164863-25-000009
Chunk: 307

Company: Enpro Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 307
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 The FFS calls for bank-to-bank dredging and capping of the riverbed of that portion of the river and estimates a range of the present value of aggregate remediation costs of approximately $953 million to approximately $1.73 billion, although estimates of the costs and the timing of costs are inherently imprecise. On March 3, 2016, the EPA issued the final Record of Decision ("ROD") as to the remedy for OU2, with the maximum estimated cost being reduced by the EPA from $1.73 billion to $1.38 billion, primarily due to a reduction in the amount of cubic yards of material that will be dredged. In October 2016, Occidental Chemical Corporation, the successor to the entity that operated the Diamond Alkali chemical manufacturing facility, reached an agreement with the EPA to develop the design for this proposed remedy at an estimated cost of $165 million. The EPA has estimated that it will take approximately four years to develop this design. On June 30, 2018, Occidental Chemical Corporation sued over 120 parties, including the Company, in the United States District Court for New Jersey seeking recovery of response costs under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA").On April 14, 2021, the EPA issued its proposed remedy for the remaining portions of the Lower Passaic River Study Area (i.e., the upper nine miles of the river) with an estimated present value cost of approximately $441 million. The proposed remedy would involve dredging and capping of the river sediment as an interim remedy followed by a period of monitoring to evaluate the response of the river system to the interim remedy.When the EPA initiated the allocation process in 2017, it explained that a fair, carefully structured, information-based allocation was necessary to promote settlements. With the completion of the allocation process, in the second quarter of 2021 the EPA began settlement negotiations with the parties that participated in the allocation process, including EnPro Holdings, to resolve the settling parties’ liability as to the full 17-mile Lower Passaic River Study Area (including OU2). In September 2022, EnPro Holdings paid $5.9 million as part of a settlement between those parties and EPA. The court approved and entered the settlement on December 18, 2024. The payment will be held in escrow until the deadline for filing an appeal has passed and all appeals (as applicable) have been resolved. Our reserve for the Lower Passaic River