EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement and order on consent under CERCLA that requires the settling parties to pay $50,000 in future U.S. response costs at the Reclamation Oil Superfund site in Detroit, Michigan, and to perform detailed removal action at the site at an estimated cost of $1,016,863.
United States v. Jacob Goldberg & Son, Inc., No. 3237 (CS) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 9, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Port Refinery Superfund site in Rye Brook, New York, must pay $215,250 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site.
SIP Proposal: Maryland (transportation conformity regulations).
SIP Proposal: Tennessee (limited approval of regional haze requirements).
FWS announced a partial 90-day finding on a petition to list 404 species in the southeastern United States as endangered or threatened under the ESA; the agency found that listing 374 of the species may be warranted and initiated a status review.
SIP Approval: Colorado (definition of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and other modifications).
FWS, in response to a court order, reinstated its listing of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse in Wyoming.
SIP Proposal: Kansas (regional haze program).
SIP Proposal: Ohio (NOx reasonably available control technology in the former Cleveland-Akron-Lorain moderate ozone nonattainment area).
FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Nueces River shiner and the plateau shiner as threatened or endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing is not warranted.