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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:7413(b) Clean Air Act

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ELIZABETH B. FORSYTH, SBN 288311 

PAUL R. CORT, SBN 184336 

Earthjustice 

50 California Street, Suite 500 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

eforsyth@earthjustice.org 

pcort@earthjustice.org 

Tel: 415-217-2000/Fax: 415-217-2040 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs Sierra Club, Center 

for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians 

Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, and 

Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

SAN FRANCISCO/OAKLAND DIVISION 

SIERRA CLUB, CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL 

DIVERSITY, WILDEARTH GUARDIANS, 

MEDICAL ADVOCATES FOR HEALTHY AIR, 

and PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL 

RESPONSIBILITY – LOS ANGELES, 

 Plaintiffs, 

 v. 

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL 

PROTECTION AGENCY; GINA MCCARTHY, in 

her official capacity as Administrator of the United 

States Environmental Protection Agency; and 

JARED BLUMENFELD, in his official capacity as 

Regional Administrator of the United States 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

 Defendants, and 

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY UNIFIED AIR 

POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT and SOUTH 

COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 

DISTRICT, 

Defendant-Intervenors. 

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Case No: 3:14-cv-04596-EMC 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER TO CONTINUE CASE 

MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

WHEREAS Plaintiffs challenge Defendants’ alleged violation of their mandatory duties 

under the Clean Air Act (“Act”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401 et seq., to make a finding by June 30, 2012, that 

California’s Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin and San Joaquin Valley failed to come into 

attainment with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 1997 fine particulate matter 

(“PM2.5”) pollution standards, and to publish notice in the Federal Register that these areas have 

been reclassified by operation of law as “Serious Areas”; 

 WHEREAS on December 18, 2014, EPA proposed to “reclassify the San Joaquin Valley 

(SJV) Moderate nonattainment area, including areas of Indian country within it, as a Serious 

nonattainment area for the 1997 PM2.5 national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) based on 

EPA’s determination that the area cannot practicably attain these NAAQS by the applicable 

attainment date of April 5, 2015.” See Designation of Areas for Air Quality Planning Purposes; 

California; San Joaquin Valley; Reclassification as Serious Nonattainment for the 1997 PM2.5 

Standards, 80 Fed. Reg. 1482 (Jan. 12, 2015); 

 WHEREAS on April 7, 2015, EPA took final action to reclassify the San Joaquin Valley as a 

Serious nonattainment area for the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS. See Designation of Areas for Air Quality 

Planning Purposes; California; San Joaquin Valley; Reclassification as Serious Nonattainment for 

the 1997 PM2.5 Standards, 80 Fed. Reg. 18528 (April 7, 2015); 

WHEREAS on November 20, 2014, EPA proposed “to determine that the Los AngelesSouth Coast Air Basin (South Coast) air quality planning area in California has attained the 1997 

annual and 24-hour [PM2.5 NAAQS]. This proposed determination is based upon complete (or 

otherwise validated), quality-assured, and certified ambient air monitoring data showing that the 

area has monitored attainment of the 1997 annual and 24-hour PM2.5 standards based on the 2011–

2013 monitoring period.” See Clean Data Determination for 1997 PM2.5 Standards; California—

South Coast; Applicability of Clean Air Act Requirements, EPA-R09-OAR-2014-0708, 79 Fed. 

Reg. 72999 (Dec. 9, 2014); 

WHEREAS Plaintiffs have petitioned the D.C. Circuit for review of EPA’s final 

rulemaking entitled “Identification of Nonattainment Classification and Deadlines for Submission 

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of State Implementation Plan (SIP) Provisions for the 1997 Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) 

National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS,” (79 Fed. Reg. 31566 

(June 2, 2014)), which addresses related issues. WildEarth Guardians v. EPA, No. 14-1145 (D.C. 

Cir. filed July 31, 2014); 

WHEREAS the Court previously granted the parties’ request to stay this action pending the 

earlier resolution of either WildEarth Guardians v. EPA or the EPA’s final actions on its proposals 

to find that the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin attained the 1997 PM2.5 standards and to 

reclassify the San Joaquin Valley as a Serious Area for the 1997 PM2.5 standards, and set a case 

management conference for July 23, 2015, Dkt. No. 31; 

WHEREAS WildEarth Guardians v. EPA remains pending before the D.C. Circuit; 

WHEREAS EPA has informed the parties that it expects to take final action on its proposal 

to determine that the South Coast has attained the 1997 PM2.5 NAAQS in August, 2015. 

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED that, in the interest of judicial economy and efficiency, the 

case management conference currently scheduled for July 23, 2015, and the deadline for the 

parties to file a joint case management conference statement currently scheduled for July 16, be 

postponed until September, 2015. 

 /s/ Elizabeth Forsyth 

ELIZABETH B. FORSYTH (SBN 288311) 

PAUL R. CORT (SBN 184336) 

Earthjustice 

50 California Street 

San Francisco, CA 94111 

eforsyth@earthjustice.org 

pcort@earthjustice.org 

Tel: 415-217-2000/Fax: 415-217-2040 

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

 /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 

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Telephone (202) 514-0375 

Facsimile (202) 514-8865 

Attorneys for Defendants 

 /s/ Annette A. Ballatore-Williamson 

ANNETTE A. BALLATORE-WILLIAMSON 

(SBN 192176) District Counsel 

JESSICA E. HAFER FIERRO 

(SBN 297668) Assistant Counsel 

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY UNIFIED AIR 

POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT (SJVUAPCD) 

1990 E. Gettysburg Avenue 

Fresno, CA 93726 

Phone: (559) 230-6033; Fax: (559) 230-6061 

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor SJVUAPCD 

 

 /s/ Lauren Nevitt 

LAUREN NEVITT 

(SBN 260297) Senior Deputy District Counsel 

BARBARA BAIRD 

(SBN 081507) Chief Deputy Counsel 

KURT WIESE 

(SBN 127251) General Counsel 

SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT 

DISTRICT 

21865 Copley Drive 

Diamond Bar, CA 91765 

Phone: (909) 396-3458; Fax (909) 296-2961 

Attorneys for Defendant-Intervenor SCAQMD 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER 

 Pursuant to the Parties’ stipulation, and in the interest of judicial economy and efficiency, 

the case management conference currently scheduled for July 23, 2015 shall be rescheduled for 

September ____, 2015. The joint case management conference statement currently due on July 16, 

2015 shall be submitted by September ____, 2015. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: 

 HON. EDWARD M. CHEN 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

Oct. 8

Oct. 1

July 16, 2015

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

AS MODIFIED

Judge Edward M. Chen

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