Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 19/12/2006

Proposed Consent Decree, 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 consent decree, to address a deadline suit filed by Sierra Club and Coosa River Basin Initiative ("Coosa River"): Sierra Club v. EPA, No. 1:06CV1523 (N.D. GA). On December 20, 2005 and January 3, 2006, Sierra Club, Coosa River, and the Georgia Public Interest Research Group petitioned EPA to object to certain Clean Air Act Title V permit amendments proposed by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division for steam generating plants at Georgia Power's (1) Bowen and Branch Steam-Electric Generating Plants, and (2) Hammond and Scherer Steam-Electric Generating Plants, all of which are in the State of Georgia. Subsequently, Sierra Club and Coosa River filed suit, alleging that the Administrator failed to perform his nondiscretionary duty to respond to the petitions within sixty days of the date they were filed. Under the terms of today's proposed consent decree, EPA has agreed to respond to the petitions by January 8, 2007, and Sierra Club and Coosa River have agreed that if EPA does so, and after parties negotiate attorneys' fees, they will move to dismi