Legal Opinion
US Magnesium, LLC v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 6, 2012No. 11-9533PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Chief Judge.
US Magnesium seeks review of a recent final rule from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In its rule, the EPA has called for Utah to revise its State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the federal Clean Air Act (CAA). Under the CAA, the EPA may call for a state to revise its SIP (a SIP Call) if the EPA finds the state’s current SIP substantially inadequate. Here, the EPA determined that Utah’s SIP was substantially inadequate because it contains an Unavoidable Breakdown Rule (UBR), which permits operators of CAA-regulated facilities to avoid enforcement…
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