Citizens for Pa.'s Future v. Ultra Res., Inc.

摘要

Oil and gas company is entitled to judgment on Clean Air Act citizen suit claims brought by environmental group alleging that company's eight compressor stations are "contiguous" and "adjacent" and must be aggregated as single facility that requires nonattainment new source review permit as major stationary source of nitrogen oxide emissions in order to comply with Pennsylvania's state implementation plan, because: (1) plain meaning of "contiguous" and "adjacent" controls whether facilities should be aggregated for air permitting purposes; (2) compressors are located on separate and unconnected parcels of land and do not meet proximity requirement of definition of "contiguous" and "adjacent"; and (3) although functional interrelatedness can lead or contribute to finding of contiguous-ness or adjacency, compressors operate independently of one another and are not functionally interrelated.