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SHELL OIL CO. v. COSTLE

No. 77-3207.

595 F.2d 224 (1979)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Douglas M. COSTLE, as Administrator, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene W. Lafitte, George J. Domas, J. Berry St. John Jr., New Orleans, La., Barbara D. Little-Evans, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Stephen D. Ramsey, Dept. of Justice, Pollution Control, Section, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., Angus MacBeth, Chief, Pollution Control Section, Dept. of Justice, Alan Eckert, U. S. Environmental Prot. Agency, Joan Z. Bernstein, Gen. Counsel., Griffin B. Bell, Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, U. S. EPA, James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land & Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Shell Oil Company (Shell), the petitioner, operates a large petroleum refinery in Norco, Louisiana, about 30 miles north of New Orleans. In this appeal, Shell challenges the effluent limit allowed the refinery by the pollution permit issued to it by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We find that the EPA's calculation of the effluent limit is supported by substantial evidence in the record. We affirm, therefore, the decision of the EPA...

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