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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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NO. C-05-2090 SC 

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF CONSENT DECREE DEADLINE

RONALD J. TENPAS

Acting Assistant Attorney General

NORMAN L. RAVE, JR.

Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 23986

Washington, D.C. 20026-3986

Tel: (202) 616-7568

Fax: (202) 514-8865

Attorneys for Defendants 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE, ) Case No. C 05 2090 SC

)

Plaintiff, ) NOTICE OF 

) CONSENT DECREE

v. ) DEADLINE EXTENSION

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)

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL )

PROTECTION AGENCY, et al., )

)

Defendants. )

 )

Paragraph 7 of the Consent Decree entered in this case provides that the deadlines

in paragraphs 4 and 5 of the Consent Decree can by extended for a period of 60 days or

less by written stipulation of the parties to the Consent Decree filed with the Court. No

action by the Court is required for such an extension.

The parties have agreed that it is appropriate to extend the deadlines in paragraphs 4

and 5 of the Consent Decree (as modified by previous extensions) by fifty-six days. 

Accordingly, pursuant to paragraph 7 of the Consent Decree, defendants United States

Environmental Protection Agency, et al. (collectively “EPA”) and plaintiff Environmental

Defense hereby stipulate: (1) to an extension of the deadline in paragraph 4 of the Consent

Decree for EPA to sign either a proposal to grant plaintiffs’ petition to list diesel emissions

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/ The original deadline in paragraph 4 of the Consent Decree was June 12, 2006. The

deadline had been extended to December 14, 2006 by agreement of the parties, and, in an

Order dated December 11, 2006, the Court approved an extension of the deadline to March

14, 2007. The deadline was further extended to July 11, 2007 by agreement of the parties.

The deadline in paragraph 5 was previously extended by agreement of the parties from May

1, 2007 to August 8, 2007.

NO. C-05-2090 SC 

NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF CONSENT DECREE DEADLINE - 2 -

as a hazardous air pollutant or a final denial of the petition from July 11 , 2007 to September

5, 2007, and (2) to an extension of the deadline in paragraph 5 of the Consent Decree for

EPA to sign a final determination to grant or deny the petition (in whole or in part) if EPA

publishes a proposal to grant it from August 8, 2007 to October 3, 2007.1

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Respectfully submitted on this 10th day of July, 2007.

 Respectfully submitted,

RONALD J. TENPAS

Acting Assistant Attorney General

 /S/ 

NORMAN L. RAVE, JR.

Trial Attorney

United States Department of Justice

Environment and Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 23986

Washington, D.C. 20026-3986

Tel: (202) 616-7568

Fax: (202) 514-8865

Counsel for Defendants

 /S/ 

REED ZARS

910 Kearney Street

Laramie, Wyoming 82070

Tel: (307) 745-7979

Fax: (307) 745-7999

Counsel for Plaintiff

LAST EXTENSION to be granted by the Court, without a Court Hearing. 

 

 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORN

I

A

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Samuel Conti

USDJ 7/11/07 

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