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Proposed Settlement Agreement AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of proposed settlement agreement; request for public comment. SUMMARY: In accordance with section 113(g) of the Clean Air Act (the "Act"), 42

May 29th, 2015

• Filed
  May 29th, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) had failed to perform a mandatory duty to respond to a 2009 letter by the Department of the Interior (“DOI”) certifying that visibility impairment in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park and Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park is reasonably attributable to emissions from Xcel Energy’s coal- fired Sherburne County Generating Station (“Sherco”) in Minnesota. The proposed settlement agreement addresses Plaintiffs’ claims and establishes a deadline for EPA to take final action to revise the Minnesota Reasonably Attributable Visibility Impairment (“RAVI”) Federal Implementation Plan (“FIP”).