SIP Approval: West Virginia (eight-hour ozone maintenance plans for the Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg, Weirton, and Wheeling areas).

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement proposed amendments that require operators to develop and implement additional provisions in their safety and environmental management systems programs for oil, gas, and sulphur operations in the outer continental shelf. 

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the Franklin's bumble bee as endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review. 

United States v. Santos/Alviso Partnership, L.P., No. CV 11-04139 HRL (N.D. Cal. Aug. 23, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the South Bay Asbestos Superfund site in San Jose, California, must provide access to the landfill property, must inspect and maintain an existing cap on the landfill property, and must execute and record a covenant to protect the existing cap.

SIP Proposals: North Carolina (emission limitations from smokestacks).

EPA proposed to revise land disposal restriction treatment standards for hazardous wastes from the production of carbamates and carbamate commercial chemical products; see above for direct final rule.

SIP Approval: California (VOC emissions for the San Joaquin Valley unified air pollution control district).

EPA issued revisions to the Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program rule. 

SIP Proposal: Colorado (attainment demonstration for the 1997 eight-hour ozone standard).

United States v. TRAC Enterprises, LLC, No. 2:11-cv-00652 (S.D. W. Va. Sept. 23, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Custom Plating and Polishing Superfund site in Dunbar, West Virginia, must pay $72,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site.