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Parties Involved:
Sierra Club
Plaintiff
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Defendant

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MATTHEW J. MCKEOWN, Acting Assistant Attorney General

PAMELA TONGLAO, Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice

Environment & Natural Resources Division

Environmental Defense Section

P.O. Box 23986

Washington, DC 20026-3986

Telephone: (202) 305-0897

Facsimile: (202) 514-8865

KEVIN V. RYAN (CSBN118321)

United States Attorney

CHARLES O’CONNOR

Assistant United States Attorney

450 Golden Gate Ave.

San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-7180

Facsimile: (415) 436-6748

Attorneys for the United States of America

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

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SIERRA CLUB,

Plaintiff,

v. 

 

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION AGENCY,

 

Defendant.

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No. C 06-5288 MHP

STIPULATION FOR THIRD

EXTENSION OF TIME FOR

DEFENDANT UNITED STATES TO

RESPOND TO COMPLAINT

Pursuant to Local Rules 6-1(a) and 7-12, Plaintiff Sierra Club and Defendant United States

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate

to extend by 60 days – to May 15, 2007 – EPA’s deadline for responding to Plaintiff’s Complaint. On

March 9, 2007, EPA lodged with this Court a proposed consent decree that would resolve all of the

issues identified in Plaintiff’s Complaint. The requested extension of time would allow EPA to complete

the public notice and comment process required under section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C.

§ 7413(g), which states that the consent decree is not final until the EPA Administrator provides “a

reasonable opportunity by notice in the Federal Register to persons who are not named as parties or

intervenors to the action” to comment in writing upon the proposed decree. After a reasonable

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Stipulation re Answer

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comment period, the EPA Administrator must promptly consider any written comments received. Id. 

If none of the comments disclose facts or considerations which indicate that the decree is inappropriate,

improper, inadequate or inconsistent with the requirements of the Clean Air Act, EPA will move for

entry of the decree. Id. 

The parties believe that a third extension of the deadline for EPA to respond to the Complaint

will not adversely affect the schedule of this case.

FOR PLAINTIFF SIERRA CLUB:

s/ Reed Zars Dated: March 15, 2007

REED ZARS

Attorney at Law

910 Kearney Street

Laramie, WY 82070

(307) 745-7979

Fax: (307) 745-7999

rzars@lariat.org

FOR DEFENDANT EPA:

s/ Pamela S. Tonglao Dated: March 15, 2007

PAMELA S. TONGLAO

United States Department of Justice

Environment & Natural Resources Division

Environmental Defense Section

P.O. Box 23986

Washington, D.C. 20026-3986

(202) 305-0897

Fax: (202) 514-8865

pamela.tonglao@usdoj.gov

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED.

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DATED UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

March 16, 2007

U

NITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IT IS SO ORDERED

Judge Marilyn H. Patel

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