SIP Proposal: Montana (partial approval of air quality permit revisions).

SIP Proposal: Maryland (transportation conformity regulations).

SIP Approval: North Carolina (smokestack emission limitations for the Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir and Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point nonattainment area).

SIP Approval: Maryland (transportation conformity regulations).

SIP Approval: California (stay of offset sanctions and deferral of highway sanctions for the San Joaquin Valley unified air pollution control district).

United States v. Santos/Alviso Partnership, L.P., No. CV 11-04139 HRL (N.D. Cal. Aug. 23, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the South Bay Asbestos Superfund site in San Jose, California, must provide access to the landfill property, must inspect and maintain an existing cap on the landfill property, and must execute and record a covenant to protect the existing cap.

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list all chimpanzees as endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review.

FWS removed bald eagles in the Sonoran Desert area of central Arizona from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the ESA to comply with Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar, No. 07-cv-00038-PHX-MHM (D. Ariz. Sept. 30, 2010).

SIP Withdrawal: California (volatile organic compound emission revision for the South Coast air quality management district).

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