Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

摘要

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended ("CAA" or "Act"), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a proposed settlement agreement, to address a consolidated petition for review filed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ("NJDEP") in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: NJDEP v. Johnson, Nos. 07-0612 and 08-4818 (3rd Cir.). On July 21, 2006, NJDEP filed an administrative petition seeking an objection to a permit proposed to be issued under title V of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq., to RRI Energy Mid-Atlantic's Portland Generating Station in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.\1\ Following denial of the petition, on September 14, 2007, NJDEP filed a petition for review of that denial (No. 07-0612) and submitted an administrative petition for reconsideration of the denial. Following denial of the petition for reconsideration, NJDEP filed a petition for review of that denial (No. 08-4818) and the two petitions were consolidated into one action. On July 23, 2009, NJDEP filed an administrative petition asking the Administrator to reopen the title V permit for the RRI Energy Portland plant pursuant to 40 CFR 70.7(f)(i