SIP Proposal: Oregon (transportation conformity criteria and procedures).

SIP Proposal: California (PM emissions for the South Coast air quality management district).

SIP Approval: California (PM emissions for the South Coast air quality management district).

United States v. BP Products North America, No. 2:12-cv-207 (N.D. Ind. May 23, 2012). A settling CAA and EPCRA defendant responsible for violations at its petroleum refinery in Whiting, Indiana, must pay a $7.2 million civil penalty to the United States and $800,000 to Indiana, must comply with emission limits on several pollutants, must install flare gas recovery systems for improved flaring efficiency and enhanced controls for leak detection and repair and benzene-containing wastewater, must perform a supplemental environmental project, and must spend $9.5 million on energy-efficiency projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 77 FR 32135 (5/31/12).

SIP Approval: Arizona (redesignation to nonattainment of the 1987 particulate matter NAAQS for western Pinal County).

EPA proposed to approve Illinois' negative declaration and request for Agency withdrawal of its CAA §§111(d) and 129 state plan to control air pollutants from large municipal waste combustors.

EPA approved Illinois' negative declaration and request for Agency withdrawal of its CAA §§111(d) and 129 state plan to control air pollutants from large municipal waste combustors.

SIP Withdrawal: Illinois (final rulemaking of April 16, 2012, on exemption from volatile organic compound coating rules).

OSM approved an amendment to Virginia's regulatory program under SMCRA pertaining to ownership and control, valid existing rights, self-bonding, and availability of records.

EPA entered into a proposed de minimis administrative settlement agreement and order on consent under CERCLA that requires the settling parties to pay $76,562.04 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the Mercury Refining Superfund site in Guilderland and Colonie, New York.