REYNOLDS METALS CO. v. UNITED STATES E.P.A.

Nos. 84-1183(L), 84-1184.

760 F.2d 549 (1985)

REYNOLDS METALS COMPANY and United States Brewers Association, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent. MILLER BREWING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Stuart Broom (Riddell, Fox, Holroyd & Jackson, P.C., Washington, D.C., Kenneth A. Barry, Norton F. Tennille, Jr., Lester Sotsky, Arnold & Porter, Denver, Colo., on brief), for petitioners.

Ellen Siegler, E.P.A., John L. Wittenborn, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (A. James Barnes, Gen. Counsel, E.P.A., Colburn T. Cherney, Associate Gen. Counsel, Susan Lepow, Asst. Gen. Counsel, F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Margaret N. Strand, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for respondent.

Before SPROUSE and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and HARGROVE, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated cases, petitioners Reynolds Metals Company, Miller Brewing Company, and United States Brewer's Association, ask us to set aside as invalid effluent limitations promulgated for the canmaking industry1 by the Environmental Protection Agency (Agency) under the Clean Water Act2 (Act). The canmaking industry discharges in its effluent3 conventional...

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