date:Dec 06, 2012
emedy available for an unreasonable agency delay claim is for the court to compel agency action, such as by issuing an order requiring the agency to act, without directing the substantive content of the decision, lawyers for the Justice Department wrote. However, in matters involving rulemaking on complex scientific and technical issues, courts routinely refuse to intervene to compel agency action by a certain date.
The government doesn't deny deadlines have been missed, but it asserted there'