Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Suit

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In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("CAA" or "the Act"), the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "the Agency") is providing notice of a proposed settlement agreement in United States Steel Corp. v. EPA, Case Nos. 13- 3595, 16-2668, and 18-1249 (8th Cir.). Petitioner United States Steel Corporation ("U.S. Steel") has filed petitions for review in the United States District Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, challenging final rules promulgated by EPA under the CAA related to regional haze best available retrofit technology determinations for taconite facilities owned and operated by U.S. Steel in Minnesota. The proposed settlement agreement would establish deadlines for EPA to take certain, specified actions.