On April 12, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Northern Division at Ashland, against Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation (formerly AK Steel Corporation) relating to violations of state and federal hazardous waste statutes and regulations. The violations pertain to the former AK Steel coke plant in Ashland, Kentucky. On April 13, 2022, DOJ filed a Notice of Lodging of Proposed Consent Decree. The proposed Consent Decree will be subject to a 30-day public comment period and proposes to resolve the alleged violations through payment of a civil penalty of $490,000 and injunctive relief in the form of a site-wide soil sampling and remedial action at four specific areas of the facility.