CONCERNED CITIZENS OF BUSHKILL TP. v. COSTLE

Civ. A. Nos. 77-3683, 77-3684.

468 F.Supp. 21 (1978)

CONCERNED CITIZENS OF BUSHKILL TOWNSHIP et al., Plaintiffs, v. Douglas COSTLE et al., Defendants, and Bushkill-Lower Lehigh Joint Sewer Authority, Defendant-Intervenor. PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. Douglas COSTLE et al., Defendants, and Bushkill-Lower Lehigh Joint Sewer Authority, Defendant-Intervenor.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Sugarman, Philadelphia, Pa., Joseph M. Reibman, Easton, Pa., for Concerned Citizens of Bushkill Tp.

Peter F. Vaira, U. S. Atty., Robert S. Forster, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty. and Kenneth N. Klass, Asst. Regional Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., for Environmental Protection Agency.

T. B. K. Ringe, Reading, Pa., Robert Johnson, and Bruce S. Katcher, Philadelphia, Pa., for Gilbert Associates.

Charles S. Smith, Easton, Pa., David Sive, and R. C. Barrett, New York City, for Bushkill-Lower Lehigh Sewer Authority.

Preston Moritz, Nazareth, Pa., for Nazareth Nat. Bank.

Jane A. Moffitt, Allentown, Pa., for First Nat. Bank of Allentown.

John Molnar, Bangor, Pa., Gary N. Asteak, Easton, Pa., for Plainfield Tp.

Franklin VanAntwerpen, Easton, Pa., for Palmer Tp.

Thomas P. Stitt, Easton, Pa., for Stockerton (Bushkill member).

S. E. Stettz, Easton, Pa., for Easton Area Joint Sewer.

T. J. Oravetz, Chief Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., for Pa. DER.


TROUTMAN, District Judge.

These consolidated cases were filed on October 26, 1977, invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under 28 U.S.C., §§ 1331 and 2201, to challenge a sewer grant made in February, 1977, by the Environmental Protection Agency, hereinafter sometimes called EPA, to the Bushkill-Lower Lehigh Joint Sewer Authority, hereinafter sometimes called the Sewer Authority, for the purpose of constructing a system of interceptor sewers in Northampton...

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