SIP Proposal: Maryland (failure to attain the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS for the Baltimore moderate nonattainment area).

SIP Approval: Virginia (permits in PSD areas).

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement in Sierra Club v. Jackson, No. 3:10-cv-04060-CRB (N.D. Cal.), that establishes deadlines for the Agency to promulgate federal implementation plans for 12 states and to take final action on SIPs in 10 states with regard to the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS. 

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson, No. 3:11-cv-00190-WHA (N.D. Cal.), that establishes deadlines for the Agency to take final action on SIPs in 20 states with regard to the 2006 fine particulate matter (PM) NAAQS. 

United States v. Schwab Family Partnership, No. 2:10-cv-00412-JD (E.D. Pa. Aug. 30, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Franklin Smelting and Slag Superfund sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, must pay $2,783,750 to the United States and $491,250 to Pennsylvania in past response costs incurred at the sites, must assign their rights to any future recovery on insurance policies related to business operations at the sites, and must contribute the net proceeds from the sale of two properties by one of the settling defendants.

United States v. City of Elkhart, No. 2:11CV328 (N.D. Ind. Sept. 6, 2011). A settling CWA defendant that discharged untreated sewage from its combined sewer collection system into waters of the United States must pay an $87,000 civil penalty to the United States and Indiana and must upgrade and expand its sewage collection, storage, conveyance, and treatment system at a cost of approximately $155.6 million by no later than July 1, 2033. 

United States v. PSC Metals, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-01886 (N.D. Ohio Sept. 7, 2011). A settling CAA defendant that failed to follow refrigerant recovery requirements at its facility in Cleveland, Ohio, must pay a $199,000 civil penalty and must implement detailed remedial measures at all 11 of its scrap yards in Ohio. 

United States v. Jacob Goldberg & Son, Inc., No. 3237 (CS) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 9, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Port Refinery Superfund site in Rye Brook, New York, must pay $215,250 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site. 

NOAA-Fisheries closed the western zone of the Gulf of Mexico to commercial king mackerel fishing in the exclusive economic zone to protect the resource. 

FWS revised the regulations governing the Federal Subsistence Management Program in Alaska by adding two public members to its board.