AMERICAN IRON & STEEL INST. v. ENVIR. PROT. AGENCY

Nos. 76-1386, 76-1749, 76-1751, 76-1757, 76-2176 and 76-2232.

568 F.2d 284 (1977)

AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE, Armco Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Inland Steel Company, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, National Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. SIERRA CLUB, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, and Russell E. Train, Administrator, Respondents, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Republic Steel Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, Intervenors. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Republic Steel Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, Intervenors. ALLEGHENY LUDLUM INDUSTRIES, INC., Atlantic Steel Company, the Babcock & Wilcox Company, Continental Copper & Steel Industries, Inc., Crucible Inc., Cyclops Corporation, Detroit Steel, Interlake, Inc., Lone Star Steel Company, Shanango Incorporated, Sharon Steel Corporation, the Timken Company, Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. YOUNGSTOWN SHEET AND TUBE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Russell E. Train, Administrator, Respondents. CF & I STEEL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Final Submission August 17, 1977.

Decided September 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Robb, Welborn, Dufford, Cook & Brown, Denver, Colo., for petitioner in No. 76-2232, CF & I Steel Corp.

Douglas R. Blazey, Maxine T. Woelfling, Harrisburg, Pa., for petitioner in No. 76-1751, Com. of Pa.

Jerome S. Kalur, Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Sullivan & Paisley, Cleveland, Ohio, for petitioner in No. 76-1749, Sierra Club.

Barry L. Malter, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C., and Raymond W. Mushal, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., for respondents.

William W. Falsgraf, Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, for intervenor, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., in Nos. 76-1749 and 76-1751.

Patrick F. McCartan, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, for intervenor, Republic Steel Corp., in Nos. 76-1749 and 76-1751.

John McN. Cramer, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., for intervenor, U. S. Steel Corp., in Nos. 76-1749 and 76-1751.

David McNeil Olds, Blair S. McMillin, Thomas C. Wettach, Thomas J. Duman, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., David S. Watson, Peter G. Veeder, Frank J. Clements, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., Max N. Edwards, Richard E. Schwartz, Collier, Shannon, Rill, Edwards & Scott, Washington, D. C., for petitioners in Nos. 76-1386, 76-1757 and 76-2176, American Iron & Steel Institute, Allegheny Ludlum Industries and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. et al.

Henry H. Korn, Richard E. Nolan, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York City, for American Iron & Steel.

Albert J. Slap, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner, Sierra Club; John D. Hoffman, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., of counsel, Jerome S. Kalur, Weston, Hurd, Fallon, Sullivan & Paisley, Cleveland, Ohio, for petitioner, Sierra Club.

William W. Falsgraf, Evan Jay Cutting, H. Stephen Madsen, Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, Donald J. Libert, Youngstown, Ohio, for intervenor, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.

David W. Furgason, William C. Robb, Welborn, Dufford, Cook & Brown, Denver, Colo., for petitioner CF & I Steel Corp.

Ray E. McDevitt, Washington, D. C., Alfred T. Ghiorzi, Peter R. Taft, Edmund B. Clark, Raymond W. Mushal, Chief Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., for respondents E.P.A.

Patrick F. McCartan, Marc L. Swartzbaugh, Cleveland, Ohio, for Republic Steel Corp.; Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, E. P. Weber, Jr., James D. Donohoe, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel.

K. Robert Conrad, Charles J. Bloom, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for CF & I Steel Corp.

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, ROSENN, Circuit Judge and MEANOR, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Chief Judge.

These are petitions to review Environmental Protection Agency regulations governing certain manufacturing processes within the iron and steel industry. The regulations, which were published in the Federal Register on March 29, 1976, establish maximum permissible quantities of pollutant which may be discharged by operations performing the designated processes. The regulations also survey the available pollution control...

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