[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46014-46015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23212]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as 
amended (``Act''), 42 U.S.C. 7413(g), notice is hereby given of a 
proposed partial consent decree, which was lodged with the United 
States Dist4ict County for the Northern District of California by the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'') on August 3, 
1998, to address a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club. This lawsuit, 
which was filed pursuant to section 304(a) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 
7604(a), addresses EPA's alleged failure to meet mandatory deadlines 
for acting on certain State Implementation Plan (``SIP'') submissions 
for the San Francisco Bay Area under section 110 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 
7410. The proposed partial consent decree provides that the 
Administrator shall take action on certain of these rules in accordance 
with the schedule set forth therein.
    EPA is also giving notice and soliciting public comment on an 
accompanying proposed partial settlement agreement resolving the 
remaining claims in the Sierra Club's Compliant. This partial 
settlement agreement provides that the Administrator shall take action 
on two additional rules within a specified time period.
    For a period of thirty (30) days following the date of publication 
of this document, the Agency will receive written comments relating to 
the proposed partial consent decree and partial settlement agreement 
from persons who were not named as parties or interveners to the 
litigation in question. EPA or the Department of Justice may withdraw 
or withhold consent to the proposed partial consent decree if the 
comments disclose facts or considerations that indicate that such 
consent is inappropriate, improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with 
the requirements of the Act. Unless EPA or the Department of Justice 
determine, following the comment period, that consent is inappropriate, 
the final partial consent decree and partial settlement agreement will 
establish deadlines for specific actions under section 110 of the Act.
    A copy of the proposed partial consent decree was lodged with the

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Clerk of the United States District6 Court for the Northern District of 
California on August 3, 1998. copies of the proposed partial consent 
decree and proposed partial settlement agreement are available from 
Yvonne Fong, Air Division (A-4), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 744-
1199. Written comments should be sent to Yvonne Fong at the address 
above and must be submitted on or before September 28, 1998.

    Dated: August 24, 1998.
Scott C. Fulton,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 98-23212 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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