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E &E Publishing, LLC <br />In the Uinta Basin, WildEarth Guardians contended that the area should have been characterized as <br />in nonattainment, not "unclassifiable." <br />The problem in the area is that, until recently, there were no ozone monitoring stations in the basin. <br />In a 2007 settlement with Kerr -McGee Corp., EPA required the Oklahoma -based company to install <br />monitors in northeast Utah. EPA argued that it could not rely on data from those monitors to <br />determine whether the area was in attainment for the 2008 standard, saying the data did not meet <br />EPA's "quality assured and quality certified" standard for the years necessary for the attainment <br />determinations (Gr°eenwir°e, Oct. 21, 2014). <br />Again, the court sided with the agency's expertise. <br />"EPA reasonably declined to rely on data that it considered of insufficient quality for designation <br />purposes," it wrote. <br />Other challenges were similarly rejected, including Connecticut and Delaware's attempt to draw a <br />nonattainment area spanning more than 15 upwind states because of ozone pollution that drifts into <br />their borders. <br />A Sierra Club attempt to force EPA to reclassify 15 counties as nonattainment instead of attainment <br />was also dismissed. <br />E &E Publishing, LLC <br />122 C St. NW, Ste. 722, Wash., D.C. 20001 <br />Phone: 202-628-6500 Fax: 202-737-5299 <br />