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28 IGNACIA S. MORENO Assistant Attorney General Environment & Natural Resources Division

PAUL CIRINO United States Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division P.O. Box 23986 Washington, D.C. 20026

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Attorney s for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

EL COMIT É PARA EL BIENESTAR DE EARLIMART and ASSOCIATION OF IRRITATED RESIDENTS

, Plaintiffs,

vs.

UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, LISA JACKSON, and JARED BLUMENFELD

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Defendants. Case No. 11

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28 Defendants United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, in her official

capacity as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), and

Jared Blumenfeld, in his official capacity as Regional Adm inistrator for EPA Region IX

, respectfully lodge with the Court the accompanying proposed Consent Decree that contains the

terms of a proposed settlement of this civil action. ( See Attachment 1, Consent Decree.)

The proposed C onsent D ecree should not be signed or entered by the Court at this

time. Pursuant to Section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7413(g), the EPA

Administrator must provide “a reasonable opportunity by notice in the Federal Register to

persons who are not named as parties or in tervenors to the action or matter to comment in

writing” upon the proposed consent decree. Accordingly, EPA will publish in the Federal

Register a notice of the proposed consent decree and request comments. After a reasonable

comment period, the EPA Admi nistrator will promptly consider any written comments received

and, if none of the comments disclose facts or considerations that indicate that the proposed

Consent Decree is inappropriate, improper, inadequate, or inconsistent with the requirements of

the Clean Air Act, Defendants will move for entry of the decree.

D ated : November 1 4 , 2011 Respectfully submitted,

IGNACIA S. MORENO Assistant Attorney General Environment & Natural Resources Division

/s/ Paul Cirino PAU L CIRINO U.S. Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division Environmental Defense Section P.O. Box 23986 Washington, D.C. 20026

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28 OF COUNSEL:

Jan M. Tierney Office of General Counsel United States Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C.

Jefferson Wehling Office of Regional Counsel United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX San Francisco, California

C ERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that, on November 1 4 , 201 1 , a true and correct copy of the foregoing

Notice of Lodging o f Proposed Consent Decree was served ele ctronically via the Court’s ECF

system to Counsel of Record to the followin g counsel:

Brent Newell Alegría De La Cruz Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment 47 Kearny Street, Suite 804 San Francisco, California 94108 bnewell@crpe

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/s/ Paul Cirino

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