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UNITED STATES v. ASHLAND OIL AND TRANSPORTATION CO.

No. 73-2161.

504 F.2d 1317 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ASHLAND OIL AND TRANSPORTATION CO., a subsidiary of Ashland Oil Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

November 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph W. Wible, Owensboro, Ky., for defendants-appellants.

A. Duane Schwartz, George Long, Asst. U. S. Attys., Louisville, Ky., James Lawrence Zimmerman, John Vance Hughes, E.P.A.—Region 4, Atlanta, Ga., Wallance H. Johnson, Edmund B. Clark, Carl Strass, Dept. of Justice, Appellate Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WEICK, EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges.

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This case poses three questions of vital importance to protection of the water resources of these United States:

1) Did Congress in adopting the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 19721 intend to control both discharges of pollutants directly into navigable waters and discharges of pollutants into nonnavigable tributaries which flowed into navigable rivers? We answer this question "yes."<...

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