EPA granted Avenal Power Center, LLC, a CAA PSD permit for the construction of the Avenal Energy Project. 

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in Sierra Club v. Jackson, No. 1; 11-cv-00636 (D.D.C.), that requires the Agency to respond to a petition seeking its objection to a CAA Title V operating renewal permit issued to the Edwardsport Generating Station in Knox County, Indiana, by September 30, 2011. 

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson, No. 1:11-cv-00461 (D.N.M.), that requires the Agency to respond to a petition seeking its objection to a CAA Title V operating permit issued to the San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, New Mexico, by February 15, 2012. 

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CAA in Allied Energy Co. v. EPA, No. 10-1146 (D.C. Cir.), that requires the Agency to propose rulemaking by December 31, 2011, that will allow the continued production of diesel fuel for use in older technology locomotive and marine engines.

EPA determined that the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico failed to submit SIPs that address the requirements of the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter NAAQS.

EPA proposed technical revisions to the electronics manufacturing and the petroleum and natural gas systems source categories of the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Rule.

SIP Proposal: Oregon (interstate transport provisions and various updates).

SIP Proposal: North Carolina (redesignation to attainment for the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir 1997 annual fine PM nonattainment area).

SIP Proposal: District of Columbia/Maryland/Virginia (attainment of the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia moderate nonattainment areas; see above for direct final rule).

SIP Proposal: Delaware (volatile organic compound emissions).