AMER. MEAT INSTITUTE v. ENVIRON. PROTECT. AGCY.

No. 74-1394.

526 F.2d 442 (1975)

AMERICAN MEAT INSTITUTE, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, and Russell E. Train, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Stern, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Richard D. Siegel, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, Washington, D.C., for American Assn. of Meat Processors, amicus curiae.

Robert C. Barnard and Charles F. Lettow, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D.C., for CPC International Inc., amicus curiae.

Frederick M. Rowe, Edward W. Warren and Robert F. VanVoorhees, Kirkland, Ellis & Rowe, Washington, D.C., for American Petroleum Institute, amicus curiae.

Edward L. Strohbehn, Jr., Washington, D.C., and Angus C. Macbeth, New York City, for Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., amicus curiae.

Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lloyd S. Guerci, and Edmund B. Clark, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Before PELL, STEVENS and TONE, Circuit Judges.


TONE, Circuit Judge.

This is a review of effluent limitations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., 86 Stat. 816 et seq. (hereinafter "the Act").1 Petitioner is the American Meat Institute ("AMI"), whose members operate slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants throughout the country. The regulations...

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