STATE OF ALABAMA v. SEEBER

No. 73-2766.

502 F.2d 1238 (1974)

STATE OF ALABAMA and Alabama Air Pollution Control Commission ex rel. William J. Baxley, Attorney General, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lynn SEEBER, General Manager of Tennessee Valley Authority, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 14, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Myron H. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry H. Caddell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Environmental Protection Div., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Philip K. Maxwell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., amicus curiae for State of Texas.

David C. Short, David D. Beals, Asst. Attys. Gen., Frankfort, Ky., amicus curiae for Com. of Kentucky.

Jan E. Chatten, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., amicus curiae for State of California.

Wyman G. Sherrer, U. S. Atty., Charles Stewart, Wm. D. Mallard, Asst. U. S. Attys., Birmingham, Ala., Kent Frizzell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Martin Green, Chief, Pollution Control Sec., James R. Walpole, Atty., Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert H. Marquis, Gen. Counsel, Herbert S. Sanger, Jr., Associate Gen. Counsel, Beauchamp E. Brogan, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Justin M. Schwamm, Atty., Tenn. Val. Authority, Knoxville, Tenn., Wallace H. Johnson, Jacques B. Gelin, Larry G. Gutterridge, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, SIMPSON and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment denying declaratory and injunctive relief and holding that 42 U.S.C. § 1857f, § 118 of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 (the Act), does not require defendants to comply with a state requirement, previously approved by the Environmental Protection Agency, that a written permit be obtained for the operation of equipment causing air pollution. Plaintiffs are the State of Alabama and the Alabama...

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