COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

3 Months Ended

Apr. 01, 2023

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

From time to time, we are involved in litigation, claims, government inquiries, investigations and proceedings, including but not limited to those relating to environmental exposures, intellectual property matters, personal injury claims, product liabilities, regulatory matters, commercial and government contract issues, employment and employee benefit matters, commercial or contractual disputes, and securities matters.

Although the ultimate outcome of any legal matter cannot be predicted with certainty, based on present information, including our assessment of the merits of the particular claim, as well as our current reserves and insurance coverage, we do not expect that such legal proceedings will have any material adverse impact on our financial statements, unless otherwise noted below. However, there can be no assurance that an adverse outcome in any of the proceedings described below will not result in material fines, penalties or damages, changes to the Company's business practices, loss of (or litigation with) customers or a material adverse effect on our financial statements.

Environmental Matters

In the ordinary course of business, we are subject to federal, state, local, and foreign environmental laws and regulations. We are responsible, or are alleged to be responsible, for ongoing environmental investigation and site remediation. These sites are in various stages of investigation or remediation and in many of these proceedings our liability is considered de minimis. We have received notification from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and from similar state and foreign environmental agencies, that a number of sites formerly or currently owned or operated by ITT, and other properties or water supplies that may be or have been impacted from those operations, contain disposed or recycled materials or wastes and require environmental investigation or remediation. These sites include instances where we have been identified as a potentially responsible party under federal and state environmental laws and regulations.

The following table provides a rollforward of our estimated environmental liability.


	April 1, 2023		April 2, 2022
Environmental liability - beginning balance	$	57.1	$	54.1

Change in estimates for pre-existing accruals	0.4		—


Payments	(2.0)		(1.9)
Foreign currency	0.1		(0.1)
Environmental liability - ending balance	$	55.6	$	52.1

Environmental-related assets, including a Qualified Settlement Fund and estimated recoveries from insurance providers and other third parties, were $13.3 and $12.1 as of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022, respectively.

The following table illustrates the reasonably possible high range of estimated liability and number of active sites or environmental matters.


As of the Period Ended	April 1, 2023		April 2, 2022
High-end estimate of environmental liability	$	90.7	$	89.4
Number of open environmental matters	27		26

As actual costs incurred at identified sites in future periods may vary from our current estimates given the inherent uncertainties in evaluating environmental exposures, management believes it is possible that the outcome of these uncertainties may have a material adverse effect on our financial statements.