AMERICAN PAPER INSTITUTE v. UNITED STATES E. P. A.

Nos. 79-1511, 79-1512, 79-1535, 79-1542, 79-1550, 79-1612, 79-1613, 79-1694, 79-1738, 79-1782, 79-1787 and 79-1804.

660 F.2d 954 (1981)

AMERICAN PAPER INSTITUTE, National Forest Products Association, James River Paper Company, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, the Mead Corporation, Westvaco Corporation, Weyerhaeuser Company, St. Regis Paper Company, Union Camp Corporation, Boise Cascade Corporation, Petitioners, and The Corn Refiners Association, Inc., Miller Brewing Company, the Great Western Sugar Company, Intervenors, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. AMERICAN FROZEN FOOD INSTITUTE, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. NATIONAL FOOD PROCESSORS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. TANNERS' COUNCIL OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. FROZEN POTATO PRODUCTS INSTITUTE, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. AMERICAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE, INC., Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Potlatch Corporation, The Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Company, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY and Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Respondents. CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, American Cyanamid Company, Arizona Chemical Company, J. T. Baker Chemical Company, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, FMC Corporation, Glyco Chemicals, Inc., The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Mallinckrodt, Inc., Northern Petrochemical Company, Olin Corporation, Stauffer Chemical Company, Union Carbide Corporation, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry L. Diamond, Washington, D. C. (John N. Hanson, Jonathan Z. Cannon, Beveridge, Fairbanks & Diamond, Washington, D. C., Richard L. Williams, James L. Sanderlin, Robert E. Payne, David E. Evans, Thomas W. McCandlish, McGuire, Woods and Battle, Richmond, Va.; Russell S. Frye, Smith & Schnacke, Dayton, Ohio, William M. Bradner, Jr., New York City, Michael K. Glenn, Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, Charles F. Lettow, Janet L. Weller, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Norton F. Tennille, Jr., Thomas H. Milch, Robert S. Angyal, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., Lewis T. Smoak, Eric C. Schweitzer, Ogletree, Deakins, Smoak, Stewart & Edwards, Greenville, S. C., Richard E. Schwartz, Thomas L. Anderson, Collier, Shannon, Rill, Edwards & Scott, H. Edward Dunkelberger, Steven S. Rosenthal, Theodore L. Garrett, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., on brief), for petitioners and intervenors.

Ronald C. Hausmann, Pollution Control Section, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Michelle B. Corash, Gen. Counsel, Barry Malter, E. P. A., James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Angus MacBeth, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald W. Stever, Jr., Chief, Pollution Control Section, Jeffrey M. Gaba, E. P. A., Washington, D. C., on brief), for respondents.

Before WIDENER, PHILLIPS and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


ERVIN, Circuit Judge:

The petitioners in these consolidated cases seek judicial review of the actions of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in issuing regulations pursuant to section 304(b)(4)(B) of the Clean Water Act ("the Act")1 promulgating effluent water limitations controlling conventional pollutants2 from private industrial sources in accordance with section 301(b)(2)(E) of...

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