Documents: Notices of Intent to Sue (2014)

Information related to notices for intent to sue received by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):

• 12/30/2014 CWA, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper (pdf) (806.81 KB)
  NOI to sue for failure to perform mandatory duty to approve or disapprove Montana's new and revised WQS.
• 12/22/2014 CAA, Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc. (pdf) (829.88 KB)
  For failure to list n-Propyl Bromide as a hazardous air pollutant.
• 12/15/2014 CAA, American Petroleum Institute (pdf) (829.88 KB)
  For failure to issue the 2014 & 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations and failure to meet the 90-day deadline with respect to API's waiver petition.
• 12/12/2014 CWA, Idaho Conservation League (pdf) (1.06 MB)
  Notice of intent to sue EPA for approval of Idaho Antidegradation rule.
• 12/02/2014 SDWA, Peter Bormuth (pdf) (294.23 KB)
  Non-discretionary duty suit for permitting Class II UIC well in violation of the SDWA and implementing regulations.
• 12/01/2014 CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (pdf) (266.79 KB)
  For failure to issue the 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
• 12/01/2014 CAA, American Petroleum Institute (pdf) (982.76 KB)
  For failure to issue the 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
• 12/01/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity (pdf) (578.62 KB)
  For failure to take final action on nonattainment SIP submittals for various states addressing the 2008 lead NAAQS.
• 11/21/2014 CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (pdf) (181.86 KB)
  For failure to issue the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
• 10/17/2014 ESA, Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity (pdf) (3.58 MB)
  60 Day Notice of Intent to sue under ESA for EPA failure to comply with ESA on 316(b).
• 11/12/2014 CWA, OVEC et al. (pdf) (4.01 MB)
  OVEC et al. NOI re WV TMDL submissionss
• 06/23/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Clean Air Council (pdf) (55.04 KB)
  Alleging EPA’s failure to perform mandatory duties under the 2008 Lead NAAQS
• 06/11/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club (pdf) (413.56 KB)
  Alleging EPA’s failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Luminant’s Martin Lake Plant, Texas.
• 08/11/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth (pdf) (141.42 KB)
  Failure to determine whether global warming pollutants from aircraft emissions cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare, and if so, to regulate those emissions
• 04/11/2014 CAA, ESA, Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, et al. (pdf) (2.08 MB)
  Notice of EPA's Violations of the Endangered Species Act in Connection With the Outer Continental Shelf air quality permit ("OCS permit") for the Cape Wind Project
• 07/07/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (55.2 KB)
  Failure to take final action on certain state implementation plan submittals and failure to “bump up” the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 1997 8-hour ozone nonattainment area.
• 02/04/2014 CAA, Citizens for Clean Air (pdf) (359.79 KB)
  Failure to issue a “finding of failure to submit” addressing the State of Alaska’s failure to develop and submit a nonattainment SIP to combat persistent violations of the 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
• 08/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (39.36 KB)
  For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals and failure to make finding of failure to submit.
• 11/22/2014 CWA, San Juan Citizens Alliance (pdf) (1.06 MB)
  NOI alleges EPA has unreasonably delayed in reissuing an NPDES permit for the Four Corners Power Plant.
• 10/06/2014 CWA, Mark W. Schaefer (pdf) (425.16 KB)
  Failure to regulate illegal building of berms and monitor building of pipes to storm sewer system and maintain compliance of storm sewer permit.
• 01/09/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity (pdf) (1.34 MB)
  Failure to promulgate a FIP for Infrastructure SIP elements for Alaska, Iowa, Puerto Rico and Washington for the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS.
• 01/27/2014 CAA, Murray Energy (pdf) (445.52 KB)
  Failure to carry out a duty under CAA 321 - entitled Employment Effects - to conduct continuing evaluations of potential loss or shifts of employment.
• 01/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (111.51 KB)
  Failure to take action on petition for redesignation of areas that violate 2008 NAAQS for Ozone.
• 02/10/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (40.26 KB)
  Failure to take final action on 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittal and failure to make finding of failures to submit.
• 2/14/2014 CWA, Jack L. Firsdon, Larry D. Askins and Vickie A. Askins (pdf) (247.89 KB)
  ODA authority to issue permits under the NPDES Permit Program for PTIs and PTOs for CAFOs.
• 02/19/2014 CAA, Nucor Steel-Arkansas, Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (pdf) (464.78 KB)
  Failure to grant or deny Nucor's petition for an objection to Title V Operating Permit issued to Big River Steel by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for a steel manufacturing facility in Osceola, Arkansas.
• 03/18/2014 CAA, Monroe Energy LLC (pdf) (615.15 KB)
  Failure to respond to a Petition for Reconsideration and a Petition for Partial Waiver of EPA's Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards, published at 78 Fed. Reg. 49794 (Aug. 15, 2013).
• 04/07/2014 CWA, ESA, Sierra Club, Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Kentucky Resources Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife (pdf) (7.49 MB)
  Notice of ESA violations in connection with EPA approval of KY WQS for Se and nutrients and eutrophication.
• 04/22/2014 CAA, State of Wyoming (pdf) (776.45 KB)
  Failure to Act on Wyoming's 2008 Lead NAAQS State Plan Submission.
• 04/23/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (50.58 KB)
  Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals and failure to make finding of failure to submit.
• 04/28/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (371.08 KB)
  Failing to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) within two years of partially disapproving Arkansas' revised Regional Haze (RH) and Interstate Transport State Implementation Plans (SIPs).
• 05/02/2014 CAA, Californians Against Waste (pdf) (316.54 KB)
  Failure to Perform Nondiscretionary Duties Under Section 112(d)(6) and (f) Relating to Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.
• 05/12/2014 CAA, New Era Group (pdf) (996.11 KB)
  Alleged failure 'to collect reliable data and to perform a reliable assessment of the existing inventory of and the need for' HCFC-22.
• 05/14/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club (pdf) (406.96 KB)
  Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Luminant's Monticello Plant, Texas.
• 05/20/2014 CAA, Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coalition, Inc. (pdf) (345.18 KB)
  Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Seneca Energy II, Ontario County Landfill Gas to Energy Facility, NY.
• 05/27/2014 CWA, Ronald J. Ferguson (pdf) (378.81 KB)
  Failure to maintain compliance with storm water permit.
• 06/04/2014 CAA, Concerned Citizens Around Murphy (pdf) (561.79 KB)
  Allege failure to respond to LDEQ's Response to EPA's Order regarding the Valero Title V petition.
• 06/20/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Clean Air Council (pdf) (55.04 KB)
  Alleging EPA's failure to perform mandatory duties under the 2008 Lead NAAQS.
• 07/15/2014 CAA, Bill Green (pdf) (71.46 KB)
  For failure to respond to two Title V petitions submitted by Bill Green in 2013 and 2014 on renewals of and revisions to the Hanford Title V permit.
• 07/28/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston (pdf) (402.89 KB)
  Failure to timely grant or deny a petition to object to the part 70 operating permit issued to Shell Oil Company for operation of the Deer Park Refinery in Harris County, Texas.
• 07/28/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity (pdf) (71.87 KB)
  For failure to take final action on North Carolina's 2008 Lead and Ozone NAAQS.
• 07/28/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, the Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston (pdf) (334.76 KB)
  For failure to grant or deny their petition to object to a title V permit issued to Shell Chemical LP for operation of the Deer Park Chemical Plant in Harris County, Texas.
• 08/20/2014 CWA, Shenandoah Riverkeeper and Potomac Riverkeeper, Inc (pdf) (246.15 KB)
  Alleged mandatory duty to approve or disapprove Virginia's 2012 303(d) list.
• 08/04/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles, WildEarth Guardians, and Center for Biological Diversity (pdf) (431.42 KB)
  For its failure to perform non-discretionary duties related to the implementation of the 1997 NAAQS for PM2.5 in the San Joaquin Valley, CA and Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin, CA nonattainment areas.
• 08/22/2014 TSCA, PEER (pdf) (408.12 KB)
  PEER issued NOI against EPA for failure to enforce TSCA and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District for violating TSCA (for having PCBs in the school).
• 08/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians (pdf) (77.77 KB)
  For failure to make findings of failure to submit 'Good Neighbor' provisions for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
• 09/02/2014 CAA, WildEarth Guardians (pdf) (1 MB)
  For unreasonable delay in responding to petition to find that Colorado is failing to administer its Title V permitting program.
• 09/17/2014 CAA, Nucor Steel Louisiana LLC and Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc (pdf) (318.41 KB)
  For failure to take mandatory action under the CAA for violations of the Administrative Procedure Act and for relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act.
• 10/02/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (695.98 KB)
  Failure to grant or deny petition to object to the proposed Title V permit for the Schiller Station power plant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• 10/08/2014 CAA, Sierra Club (pdf) (38.29 KB)
  For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for Kansas and North Dakota.
• 10/08/2014 CAA, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians (pdf) (76.71 KB)
  For failure to find that Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and North Carolina have failed to submit SIPs to meet various requirements under Section 110(a) of the CAA with regards to the 2008 revised NAAQS for ozone.
• 11/07/2014 CWA Sierra Club, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, West Virginia Rivers Coalition, and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (pdf) (5.99 MB)
  Notice of intent to sue under Clean Water Act Section 505(a)(2)