KENNECOTT v. UNITED STATES E.P.A.

Nos. 84-1288(L), 84-1479, 84-1487, 84-1659 and 84-1694.

780 F.2d 445 (1985)

KENNECOTT, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. GTE Products Corporation, Intervenor/Petitioner. AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS, AMAX, Inc., and ASARCO Incorporated, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. ST. JOE MINERALS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. The SECONDARY LEAD SMELTERS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. William RUCKELSHAUS, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Respondent. Gulf Coast Lead Company, Intervenor/Petitioner. MALLINCKRODT, INC., Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 26, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Walpole (Susan L. Smith, Holland & Hart, on brief), Robert A. Emmett (Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, on brief), Kurt E. Blase (Edwin H. Seeger, Richard T. Witt, Prather, Seeger, Doolittle & Farmer, Washington, D.C., Paul D. Frohardt, Holland & Hart, Denver, Colo., Douglas E. McAllister, Asst. Chief Counsel, Washington, D.C., American Mining Congress on brief), for Group I petitioners.

Robert N. Steinwurtzel (Stephen E. Roady, Mary Douglas Dick, Brown, Roady, Bonvillian & Gold, Chartered, Washington, D.C., on brief), for Group III petitioners.

Theodore L. Garrett (Laird Hart, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., on brief), for Group IV petitioners.

Michael W. Steinberg, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Steven E. Silverman, Office of Gen. Counsel, U.S.E.P.A. (F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land and Natural Resources Div., Dean K. Dunsmore, Scott Slaughter, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Ellen Siegler, Office of Gen. Counsel, U.S.E.P.A., Susan G. LePow, Asst. Gen. Counsel, U.S.E.P.A., Washington, D.C., on brief), for respondent.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied January 24, 1986.

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners challenge the effluent limitations set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the non-ferrous metals manufacturing industry. EPA established the limitations in a rulemaking pursuant to the Clean Water Act of 1977, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1376 (1982).1 Congress passed the Clean Water Act as an amendment to the Federal Water Pollution...

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