CITIZENS FOR A BETTER ENVIRON. v. ENVIRON., ETC.

No. 78-1042.

596 F.2d 720 (1979)

CITIZENS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT, Petitioner, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Douglas Costle, Individually and as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and George Alexander, Individually and as Regional Administrator, Region V, of the Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1979.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill S. Forcade, Milwaukee, Wis., for petitioner.

Jeffrey Gaba, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Before SWYGERT and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Citizens for a Better Environment ("Citizens"),2 challenges the Environmental Protection Agency's ("EPA") approval of a State of Illinois water pollution program developed as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES"). We conclude that because the EPA failed to establish guidelines by which the adequacy of the Illinois provisions for public participation in the enforcement...

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