DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. v. TRAIN

Nos. 74-1261, 74-1290, 74-1296 to 74-1304, 74-1357, 74-1406, 74-1407, 74-1588 to 74-1590, 74-1670, 74-1671 and 74-1741.

541 F.2d 1018 (1976)

E. I. du PONT de NEMOURS & COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. Russell E. TRAIN, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Barnard, Washington, D. C., for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Douglas E. Kliever and Charles F. Lettow.

Kathryn A. Oberly, Washington, D. C., for respondent. With her on the briefs were Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Alan G. Kirk, II, Asst. Administrator for Enforcement and Gen. Counsel, and Ray E. McDevitt, Atty., Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Angus Macbeth, New York City, and Edward L. Strohbehn, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Natural Resources Defense Council.

Frederick M. Rowe, Washington, D. C., Edward W. Warren, Scranton, Pa., and Robert F. VanVoorhees, Fairfax, Va., for American Petroleum Institute, et al.

Russell E. Leasure and Elliot S. Azoff, Cleveland, Ohio, for RMI Co.

George C. Freeman, Jr., Turner T. Smith, Jr., and William A. Anderson, II, Richmond, Va., for Allegheny Power System, Inc., et al.

Milton A. Smith, Lawrence B. Kraus, James F. Rill, Max N. Edwards, Richard E. Schwartz, and Collier, Shannon, Rill & Edwards, Washington, D. C., for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

Robert H. Young, Kenneth R. Myers, Philadelphia, Pa., and Archibald A. Campbell, Wytheville, Va., for New Jersey Zinc Co.

Before RIVES and BREITENSTEIN, Senior Circuit Judges, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.


BREITENSTEIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Companies engaged in the production of inorganic chemicals have filed 20 petitions for review of various regulations promulgated by respondent Train as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The petitions have been consolidated for presentation and disposition. The regulations were promulgated under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1376. Herein for brevity and...

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