SIP Proposal: Virginia (addition of the 2008 eight-hour ozone NAAQS and related updates; see above for direct final rule)

FWS proposed to list two freshwater mussels as endangered throughout their ranges under the ESA.

United States v. Arch Coal, Inc., No. 2:11-cv-00133 (S.D. W. Va. Mar. 1, 2011). Settling CWA defendants that discharged pollutants into waters of the United States in Kentucky and West Virginia must pay a $4 million civil penalty and must perform various injunctive relief measures.

(new source review permitting requirements and exemptions)

EPA approved California's airborne toxic control measure for perchloroethylene emissions from dry cleaning and water-repelling operations in place of the national standards

SIP Approval: Texas (partial approval of PSD program and promulgation of federal implementation plan)

EPA proposed amendments to the NESHAPs for secondary lead smelting, including revisions to stack emissions limits for lead; fugitive dust emissions control requirements; total hydrocarbons emissions limits for reverberatory, electric, and rotary furnaces; emissions limits and work practice requirements for dioxins and furans; testing and monitoring and related notification, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements; and provisions addressing periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction to ensure that the rules are consistent with a recent court decision.

SIP Proposal: California (VOC emissions for the Placer County and Ventura County air pollution control districts; see above for direct final rule).

SIP Proposal: Delaware (regulation of NOx)

SIP Proposal: Utah (attainment of the 1997 ozone NAAQS)