Two years and $2.2 billion dollars later and a settlement's been reached between Norfolk Southern and the village of East Palestine.

Mayor Trent Conaway tells 21 News they're satisfied with the settlement, but feels they're not quite out of the woods yet.

"There's definitely more still needs to be done as far as the long term health care and stuff like that," Conaway said. "We are working with our partners in the state and federal government to assure that, you know, East Palestine will be safe," he said.

Since the derailment, Conaway said the population has dwindled some, but the village is working to retain and even bring back their residents.

"It's sort of mixed we lost some people at the beginning and then for a while it was hard to even buy a house in East Palestine because they were going so fast and rentals being unheard of anymore, in East Palestine," Conaway said. "I hope that rend continues and iI hope we actually regain city status," he said.

"The village businesses they're struggling," Conaway said. "That's why we're that's why we're trying to get out with our PR firm and some other things and we came up wit a VIP shopper program to try to draw people to the village and we really need help," he said.

The disaster has brought President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden to the village and on Monday, a visit from Vice President J.D. Vance.

So far though, no movement in Washington on a rail safety bill.