Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 02/12/1997

Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

In accordance, with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (Act), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed partial consent decree, which was lodged with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on November 19, 1997, to address a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club. This lawsuit, which was filed pursuant to section 304(a) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7604(a), concerns, among other things, EPA's alleged failure to meet a mandatory deadline under section 112(f)(1) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(f)(1). Section 112(f)(1) of the Act relates to a report to Congress on the risk to public health remaining, or likely to remain, from sources subject to hazardous air pollutant regulation under section 112 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412, after the application of technology-based standards under section 112(d) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7412(d). The proposed partial consent decree provides that no later than March 24, 1998, the Administrator shall sign a notice of availability of the proposed report, and that no later than February 1, 1999, the Administrator shall sign the letter transmitting the final report to Con