STATE OF CONN. v. UNITED STATES E. P. A.

No. 564, Docket 80-4176.

656 F.2d 902 (1981)

STATE OF CONNECTICUT and State of New Jersey, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondents, and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and Robert F. Flacke, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., Alan M. Kosloff, Kenneth Tedford, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., for petitioner State of Conn.

John J. Degnan, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Stephen Skillman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard M. Hluchan, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N. J., for petitioner State of N. J.

Michele Beigel Corash, Gen. Counsel, E. P. A., Bruce Diamond, Atty., E. P. A., Angus MacBeth, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Land and Natural Resources Div., Donald W. Stever, Jr., Chief, Pollution Control Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Diane L. Donley, Atty., Pollution Control Section, Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for respondents.

Garrett E. Austin, Thomas J. Farrelly, New York City, for intervenor Consolidated Edison.

Shirley A. Siegel, Sol. Gen., Albany, N. Y., Marcia J. Cleveland, Mary L. Lyndon, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. State of N. Y., New York City, for intervenor State of N. Y.

Before WATERMAN, MANSFIELD and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

The States of Connecticut and New Jersey petition for review of a "final rule" promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which approved a revision to New York's state implementation plan ("SIP") for air pollution control. Although the petition raises difficult substantive and procedural questions with reference to the abatement of interstate air pollution, we discern no basis for overruling...

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