SIP Approval: California (volatile organic compound emissions for the Placer County air pollution control district and the Sacramento metropolitan air quality management district).

EPA finalized NESHAPs for the shipbuilding and ship repair and the wood furniture manufacturing source categories.

EPA proposed revisions to the 1988 UST technical, financial responsibility, and state program approval regulations.

SIP Approval: West Virginia (attainment of the 24-hour 2006 fine particulate matter NAAQS for the Charleston nonattainment area).

EPA announced the excess emissions penalty amounts that will apply under the Acid Rain Program for compliance years 2011 and 2012.

United States v. D&L Sales, Inc., No. 11-cv-01193 (W.D. Mich. Nov. 9, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for radiological and chemical contamination at the Aircraft Components Inc. Superfund site near Benton Harbor, Michigan, must implement institutional controls to protect the remedy, and DOD must pay $5,649,438 to resolve its alleged contribution liability at the site.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling party to pay $39,926, plus interest, in U.S. response costs incurred at the River Forest Dry Cleaners Superfund site in River Forest, Illinois.

SIP Proposal: Oklahoma (1997 eight-hour ozone and 1997 and 2006 fine PM NAAQS).

SIP Proposal: District of Columbia (regional haze program).

SIP Approval: Texas (partial approval of definitions for the NSR program).