Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("CAA" or the "Act"), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement agreement between the following groups of Petitioners: (1) The States of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, and the City of New York (collectively "State Petitioners"); and (2) Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense Fund (collectively "Environmental Petitioners"), and Respondent, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") (collectively "the Parties"). This proposed settlement is intended to resolve threatened litigation over the EPA's failure to respond to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's remand in State of New York, et al. v. EPA, No. 06-1322. Under the terms of the proposed settlement agreement deadlines have been established for EPA to take action.