TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY v. U.S. E.P.A.

Nos. 00-12310, 00-12311, 00-12349, 00-12457 to 00-12459, 00-15936 and 00-16234 to 00-16236.

278 F.3d 1184 (2002)

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, Petitioner, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Alabama Power Company, Duke Energy Corporation, Petitioners, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Tennessee Valley Authority, Petitioner, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Tennessee Valley Authority, Petitioner, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Alabama Power Company, Duke Energy Corporation, Petitioners, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Tennessee Valley Authority, Petitioner, Georgia Power Company, Intervenor, v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, John H. Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator, et al., Respondents. Tennessee Valley Authority, Petitioner, v. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents. Alabama Power Company, Petitioner, v. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents. Tennessee Valley Public Power Association, Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, et al., Petitioners, v. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents. Duke Energy Corporation, Petitioner, v. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robin Rogers, Frederick Ladd Hitchcock, Timothy H. Nichols, Carlos Clifford Smith, Mark Windhorn Smith, Strang, Fletcher, Carriger, Walker, Hodge & Smith, Chattanooga, TN, James E. Fox, Robert Chester Glinski, Harriet A. Cooper, Gregory R. Signer, Ronald E. Klipsch, James B. Hall, TVA, Office of General Counsel, Knoxville, TN, Makram B. Jaber, F. William Brownell, Henry V. Nickel, Hunton & Williams, Washington, DC, Melvin Scott Schulze, Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, GA, for TVA.

James C. Cope, Murfree, Cope, Hudson & Scarlett, Murfreesboro, TN, David Gualtieri, J. Steven Rogers, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Defense Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for EPA.

Wiliam H. Lewis, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC, for American Forest & Paper Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.

David R. Wooley, Young, Sommer, Ward, Ritzenbert, Wooley, Baker & Moore, LLC, Albany, NY, for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Amicus Curiae.

Margaret Campbell, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Atlanta, GA, Eugene W. Ward, General Counsel, Electric Power Bd., Nashville, TN, J. Maxwell Williams, Memphis, TN, Henry C. Tharpe, Jr., Kinney, Kemp, Pickell, Sponcler & Joiner, Dalton, GA, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, IV, Hunton & Williams, Daniel S. Reinhardt, Marshall B. Dukes, Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, GA, Karl R. Moor, Washington, DC, Peter Crane Anderson, Hunton & Williams, Charlotte, NC, for Intervenor, Georgia Power Co.

Angelia Souder Blackwell, Atlanta, GA, for Whitman and EPA.

Karl R. Moor, Southern Co., Washington, DC, Steven G. McKinney, Michael D. Freeman, Lyle David Larson, R. Bruce Barze, Jr., for Alabama Power Co. Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, for Alabama Power Co.

J. Maxwell Williams, Memphis Light, Ga & Water Div., Memphis, TN, for Memphis Light, Gas & Water Div.

Garry Stephen Rice, Duke Energy Corp., T. Thomas Cottingham, Hunton & Williams, Charlotte, NC, for Duke Energy Corp.

Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges.


BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

Pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. § 7607(b), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), joined by a number of private power companies and industry associations, petitions for review of three orders issued to it by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).1 Centrally at issue in these orders is EPA's determination that certain maintenance and repair projects...

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