HANKS v. COSTLE

Civ. A. No. 79-0412-R.

501 F.Supp. 195 (1980)

Lou L. HANKS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Douglas M. COSTLE, Administrator et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

October 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick M. McSweeney, James F. Stutts, Richmond, Va., for plaintiffs.

Gerald L. Baliles and John A. Gibney, Jr., Bell, Ellyson, Lacy & Baliles, James L. Sanderlin, Wellford L. Sanders, Jr., and Jack M. Ross, Jr., McGuire, Woods & Battle, John W. Burke, III, Richmond, Va., for intervening defendant.

Frederick S. Fisher, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., Peter L. Tribe, County Atty., County of Hanover, James T. Moore, III, Asst. County Atty., County of Hanover, Hanover Va., Robert W. Jaspen, Raymond A. Carpenter, Asst. U. S. Attys., Richmond, Va., Elizabeth Stein, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Michael Murchison, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, a group of environmentally-concerned citizens, seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Virginia State Water Control Board (State Board), and the County of Hanover, Virginia to prevent planned discharges of pollutants by the Bear Island Paper Company from a mill the company is constructing in Hanover County. In 1977, Bear...

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