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WIS. ENVIRONMENTAL DECADE, INC. v. DNR

No. 76-086.

85 Wis.2d 518 (1978)

271 N.W.2d 69

WISCONSIN'S ENVIRONMENTAL DECADE, INC., Petitioner: CITY OF MADISON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, and others, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided October 31, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief by Henry A. Gempeler, city attorney, and Helen E. Gibson, assistant city attorney, and oral argument by Ms. Gibson.

For respondents, Department of Natural Resources, Anthony S. Earl, and Alta E. Ehly, there was a brief by Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Linda M. Clifford, assistant attorney general, and oral argument by Linda H. Bockert, assistant attorney general.

BEILFUSS, C. J.

In 1941 the legislature enacted sec. 144.025 (2) (i), Stats. (then sec. 144.53(3) by ch. 307, Laws of 1941). This statute gave the responsible administrative agency (now the DNR) authority to issue permits and to "supervise chemical treatment of waters for the suppression of algae, aquatic weeds, swimmers' itch and other nuisance producing plants and organisms." As of June, 1975, no permit which met the administrative body's procedural requisites had...

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