{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s16139","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f16139.","heading":"Settlement agreement provisions","text":"\u00a7\u202f16139.\nSettlement agreement provisions\nIn any settlement agreement regarding alleged violations of environmental law in which a defendant agrees to perform a diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Project, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall require the defendant to include in the settlement documents a certification under penalty of law that the defendant would have agreed to perform a comparably valued, alternative project other than a diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Project if the Administrator were precluded by law from accepting a diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Project. A failure by the Administrator to include this language in such a settlement agreement shall not create a cause of action against the United States under the Clean Air Act [\n42 U.S.C. 7401","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s16139.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s16139","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f16139."},{"t":"heading","text":"Settlement agreement provisions"},{"t":"content","text":"\n","children":[{"t":"p","text":"In any settlement agreement regarding alleged violations of environmental law in which a defendant agrees to perform a diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Project, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall require the defendant to include in the settlement documents a certification under penalty of law that the defendant would have agreed to perform a comparably valued, alternative project other than a diesel emissions reduction Supplemental Environmental Project if the Administrator were precluded by law from accepting a diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Project. A failure by the Administrator to include this language in such a settlement agreement shall not create a cause of action against the United States under the Clean Air Act [","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"42 U.S.C. 7401","href":"/us/usc/t42/s7401","tail":" et seq.] or any other law or create a basis for overturning a settlement agreement entered into by the United States."}],"tail":"\n"}]},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}