APPALACHIAN POWER CO. v. ENVIRONMENTAL PRO. AGCY.

Nos. 72-1733, 72-1734, and 72-1776.

477 F.2d 495 (1973)

APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. APPALACHIAN POWER COMPANY, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. BETHLEHEM STEEL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. William D. RUCKELSHAUS, Administrator, and Environmental Protection Agency, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Edward Dunkelberger, Jr., Washington, D. C. (Theodore L. Garrett, Washington, D. C., Charles C. Wise, Jr., and Thomas C. Damewood, Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for petitioners in Action Nos. 72-1733 and 72-1734.

H. Vernon Eney and Thomas P. Perkins, III, Baltimore, Md. (Anthony M. Carey, Robert G. Smith and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for petitioner in Action No. 72-1776.

James R. Moore, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice (Kent Frizzell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark and Martin Green, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, on brief), for respondents in Action Nos. 72-1733, 72-1734 and 72-1776.

Before RUSSELL, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

These proceedings arose under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970,1 which represented a drastic revision of earlier federal air quality control legislation.2 In enacting the Amendments, Congress was seeking to "make possible the more expeditious imposition (and enforcement both nationally and locally) of specific emission standards" for air pollutants by substantial revisions...

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