EPA proposed to grant a second one-year extension of the attainment date for the Uinta Basin, Utah marginal nonattainment area under the 2015 ozone NAAQS, and to determine that the area attained the standard by the extended attainment date of August 3, 2023.
SIP Proposal: Wyoming (regional haze).
United States v. Abex Aerospace, No. 2:16-cv-02696 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 29, 2024). Under a third amendment to a proposed consent decree, additional settling CERCLA defendants must pay $20,500,000 toward cleanup of environmental contamination at the Omega Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Los Angeles County, California.
United States v. Intercontinental Terminals Co., LLC., No. 4:24-cv-01207 (S.D. Tex. Apr. 2, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant must pay $6,645,000 to restore, replace, rehabilitate, or acquire the equivalent of those resources injured by the releases of hundreds of thousands of barrels of a mixture of petrochemical products and firefighting foam and water into the environment as a result of a fire that ignited at a terminal facility in Deer Park, Harris County, Texas.
SIP Approval: District of Columbia (removal of requirements for gasoline vapor recovery systems installed on gasoline dispensers).
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in Sierra Club v. Regan, No. 1:23-cv-00424-RCL (D.D.C.), concerning the Agency’s alleged failure to issue final federal plans implementing emissions guidelines for commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators and other solid waste incinerators in states that had not submitted approvable state plans that constituted unreasonably delayed agency action.
SIP Approval: Nevada (second ten-year plan for maintaining the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in Clark County).
EPA finalized the residual risk and technology review conducted for the Commercial Sterilization Facilities source category regulated under NESHAPs; took final action to correct and clarify regulatory provisions related to emissions during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction; and took final action to require owners and operators to demonstrate compliance through ethylene oxide continuous emissions monitoring systems.
United States v. Kyocera AVX Components Corp., No. 1:24-cv-305 (W.D.N.Y. Apr. 1, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant must perform remedial action at the Olean Wellfield Superfund Site in the City of Olean, the Town of Olean, and the Town of Portville, New York, and reimburse EPA for its past and future costs regarding the remedial action.
EPA gave notice that it has responded to petitions for reconsideration and administrative stay of a final action under the “good neighbor” or “interstate transport” provision of the CAA published in the Federal Register on June 5, 2023, titled "Federal 'Good Neighbor Plan' for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards."