Proposed Partial Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit

In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, as amended (``CAA'' or the ``Act''), notice is hereby given of a proposed partial consent decree to address a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia: Sierra Club v. EPA, Civil Action No. 10-cv-1541 (CKK) (D.D.C.) (filed Sept. 14, 2010). Plaintiff filed a lawsuit alleging that Gina McCarthy, in her official capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''), failed to perform duties mandated by the CAA to: (1) Promulgate a federal implementation plan (``FIP'') for the State of Texas for the 1997 fine particulate matter (``PM 2.5 '') and ozone national ambient air quality standards (``NAAQS''); (2) promulgate a FIP for the State of Texas for the 1997 ozone NAAQS; and (3) take final approval/disapproval action on the state implementation plan (``SIP'') that Texas submitted for implementation of the 1997 PM 2.5  NAAQS. The proposed partial consent decree would establish deadlines for EPA to take certain specified actions.