99-7774. Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 15157]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ERL-6317-1]


Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as 
amended, (the ``Act''), this is a notice of a proposed consent decree, 
which the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') 
lodged with the United States District Court for the District of 
Columbia on March 12, 1999, in a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club under 
section 304(a) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7604(a) (Sierra Club v. Browner, 
Civ. No. 98-1610). This lawsuit concerns EPA's alleged failure to 
promulgate regulations for fifty percent of the categories and 
subcategories of sources of hazardous air pollutants listed pursuant to 
section 112(c) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(c). The lawsuit also concerns 
EPA's alleged failure to promulgate regulations by November 15, 1997, 
for specific categories and subcategories of sources of hazardous air 
pollutants that EPA designated for regulation by that date under 
section 112(e)(3) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(e)(3). The proposed 
consent decree provides that EPA shall promulgate regulations under 
section 112(d) for specified categories and subcategories by specified 
deadlines..

    For a period of thirty (30) days following the date of publication 
of this notice, you may submit written comments relating to the 
proposed consent decree if you were not named as a party to the 
litigation in question. EPA or the Department of Justice may withhold 
or withdraw consent to the proposed consent decree if the comments 
disclose facts or circumstances that indicate that such consent is 
inappropriate, improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with the 
requirements of the Act. Unless EPA or the Department of Justice 
determines, following the comment period, that consent is 
inappropriate, the final consent decree will establish deadlines for 
issuing certain regulations under section 112(d) of the Act.
    EPA lodged a copy of the proposed consent decree with the Clerk of 
the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on March 
12, 1999. You may also obtain a copy from Phyllis Cochran, Air and 
Radiation Division (2344), Office of General Counsel, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 
20460, [phone]. Send written comments to Diane McConkey at the 
address above. Comments must arrive no later than April 29, 1999.
Lisa K. Friedman,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 99-7774 Filed 3-29-99; 8:45 am]
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