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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:7604 Clear Air Act (Emission Standards)

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SAM HIRSCH

Acting Assistant Attorney General

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

United States Department of Justice

LESLIE M. HILL (D.C. Bar No. 476008) 

leslie.hill@usdoj.gov 

Environmental Defense Section

601 D Street N.W., Suite 8000 

Washington D.C. 20004 

Telephone (202) 514-0375 

Facsimile (202) 514-8865 

Attorneys for Defendant 

ROBERT UKEILEY

Admitted Pro Hac Vice

Law Office of Robert Ukeiley

255 Mountain Meadow Road 

Boulder, CO 80302 

Tel. (303) 442-4033 

rukeiley@igc.org 

[additional counsel for Plaintiff listed in signature block] 

Counsel for Sierra Club 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

SIERRA CLUB,

Plaintiff,

v. 

GINA McCARTHY, Administrator of the 

United States Environmental Protection 

Agency, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 3:12-cv-06472-CRB

JOINT STATUS REPORT

On November 24, 2014, the parties filed a joint status report (Dkt. No. 41) 

advising the Court that the parties had reached a tentative agreement on all deadlines 

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except two and expected to reach agreement on those additional deadlines shortly. The 

Court ordered the case held in abeyance until January 5, 2015 and ordered the parties to 

submit another status report by December 18, 2014 (Dkt. No. 42). 

The parties have now reached tentative agreement on all deadlines and are 

seeking management approval of a proposed Consent Decree. As the parties explained in 

the prior status reports, approval of a settlement on behalf of Defendant will require 

review by the appropriate officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the 

U.S. Department of Justice as well as compliance with the public notice requirement of 

40 U.S.C. § 7413(g). Approval of the settlement on behalf of Plaintiff will require 

review and approval by multiple people in Sierra Club, some of whom are volunteers. 

Accordingly, the parties stipulate to and request that the Court hold this matter in 

abeyance until January 12, 2015 to allow the parties to conclude negotiations and receive 

management approval for settlement. 

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Respectfully submitted,

Date: December 18, 2014 

SAM HIRSCH

Acting Assistant Attorney General

Environment and Natural Resources Division 

 /s/ Leslie M. Hill

LESLIE M. HILL (D.C. Bar No. 476008) 

U.S. Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division 

Environmental Defense Section

601 D Street N.W., Suite 8000 

Washington D.C. 20004 

leslie.hill@usdoj.gov 

Telephone (202) 514-0375 

Facsimile (202) 514-8865 

Attorneys for Defendant 

/s/ Robert Ukeiley (email authorization 12/18/14)

ROBERT UKEILEY

Admitted Pro Hac Vice

Law Office of Robert Ukeiley

255 Mountain Meadow Road 

Boulder, CO 80302 

Tel. 720-232-7247 

rukeiley@igc.org 

ANDREA ISSOD (Cal. Bar No. 230920) 

Sierra Club 

85 Second Street, 2nd Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

Telephone (415) 977-5544 

Facsimile (415) 977-5793 

andrea.issod@sierraclub.org 

Attorneys for Plaintiff

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 ORDER

 Pursuant to Stipulation and for good cause shown, all proceedings shall be held in 

abeyance until January 12, 2015. 

 DATED this 5th day of January 2015. 

________________________________ 

CHARLES R. BREYER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

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IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Charles R. Breyer

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