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ROCKY MOUNTAIN OIL AND GAS ASS'N v. STATE

No. 5517.

645 P.2d 1163 (1982)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION, a non-profit corporation, acting through its Wyoming division, the Petroleum Association of Wyoming, a corporation, Robert E. Hudson, an individual, Burton/Hawks, Inc., a corporation, Marathon Oil Company, a corporation, Amoco Production Company, a corporation, and Terra Resources, Inc., a corporation, and True Oil Company, a partnership, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. STATE of Wyoming, The Environmental Quality Council of the State of Wyoming, Robert E. Sundin, as Director of the Department of Environmental Quality, and William L. Garland, as Administrator of the Water Quality Division of the Department of Environmental Quality, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Houston G. Williams and Richard L. Williams of Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, P.C., Casper, signed the brief and appeared in oral argument on behalf of appellants.

Steven F. Freudenthal, Atty. Gen., Walter Perry, III, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., and Steve Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., signed the brief and Steve Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., appeared in oral argument on behalf of appellees.

Before ROSE, C.J., and RAPER, THOMAS, ROONEY and BROWN, JJ.

ROONEY, Justice.

Appellee, The Environmental Quality Council of the State of Wyoming (hereinafter referred to as appellee Council), promulgated certain rules and regulations on September 4, 1980, which undertook, among other things, to regulate discharges of commercial, municipal and industrial wastes, including "oil field wastes including water produced with oil and gas," and including "any discharge to the subsurface." Such rules and regulations require the obtaining...

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