SIP Approval: North Carolina (smokestack emission limitations for the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir and Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point nonattainment area).

SIP Approval: Maryland (transportation conformity regulations).

SIP Approval: California (stay of offset sanctions and deferral of highway sanctions for the San Joaquin Valley unified air pollution control district).

SIP Withdrawal: California (volatile organic compound emission revision for the South Coast air quality management district).

SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (1997 eight-hour ozone and 1997 and 2006 fine PM NAAQS).

SIP Proposal: Maryland (failure to attain the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS for the Baltimore moderate nonattainment area).

SIP Approval: Virginia (permits in PSD areas).

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement in Sierra Club v. Jackson, No. 3:10-cv-04060-CRB (N.D. Cal.), that establishes deadlines for the Agency to promulgate federal implementation plans for 12 states and to take final action on SIPs in 10 states with regard to the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS. 

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson, No. 3:11-cv-00190-WHA (N.D. Cal.), that establishes deadlines for the Agency to take final action on SIPs in 20 states with regard to the 2006 fine particulate matter (PM) NAAQS. 

United States v. PSC Metals, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-01886 (N.D. Ohio Sept. 7, 2011). A settling CAA defendant that failed to follow refrigerant recovery requirements at its facility in Cleveland, Ohio, must pay a $199,000 civil penalty and must implement detailed remedial measures at all 11 of its scrap yards in Ohio.