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AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE v. E. P. A.

Nos. 76-4497, 79-1829 and 79-2944.

661 F.2d 340 (1981)

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE, et al., Petitioners, v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

November 13, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liskow & Lewis, Gene W. Lafitte, J. Berry St. John, New Orleans, La., McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Robert K. Wrede, Philip K. Verleger, Sharon F. Rubalcava, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioners.

Jeffrey M. Gaba, E.P.A., Patrick Cafferty, Lloyd S. Guerci, Pollution-Control Section, Land & Nat. Resources, Washington, D. C., James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before BROWN, THORNBERRY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

In this Battle of Acronyms, the American Petroleum Institute (API) takes the field against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protest its actions with regard to National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for oil and gas installations employing best practicable control technology currently available (BPT). At one end of the battleground stands the arm of the federal government charged with the protection...

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