FRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL RIVER, a Michigan non-profit corporation, National Wildlife Federation, a District of Columbia non-profit corporation, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, a Michigan non-profit corporation, Michigan Council of Trout Unlimited, a Michigan non-profit corporation, and Lake Michigan Federation, an Illinois non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs,
v.
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, an Agency of the Federal Government, William K. Reilly, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, LaJuana S. Wilcher, Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Roland Harmes, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Defendants,
and
Kuras Properties, Inc., a Michigan corporation, Intervenor/Defendant.
United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 23, 1992.
June 23, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mark Van Putten, Counsel, Nat. Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Natural Resource Center, Ann Arbor, Mich., Robert G. Dreher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., M. Carol Bambery, Lansing, Mich., Thomas A. Baird, White, Beekman, Przybylowicz, Schneider & Baird, Okemos, Mich., James Mark Olson, Traverse City, John D. Noonan, Rosi, Olson & Levine, PC, Traverse City, Eleanor K. Roemer, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.
Daniel M. LaVille, Asst. U.S. Atty., John A. Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., Thomas H. Pacheco, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental Defense Section, Land & Natural Resources Div., Catherine A. Winer, U.S. E.P.A., David J. Kaplan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental Defense Section, Washington, D.C., Thomas J. Emery, Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Natural Resources Div., Stephen M. Rideout, Frank J. Kelley, Atty., Gen., Lansing, Mich., for defendants.
Thomas C. Jackson, Fred Wagner, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, D.C., Nyal D. Deems, Matthew D. Zimmerman, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, Mich., Gregory L. McClelland, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Lansing, Virginia S. Albrecht, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, D.C., for intervenor.
United States District Court, W.D. Michigan.
OPINION
ENSLEN, District Judge.
I. Introduction
This case is before the Court on plaintiffs' claims for injunctive and declaratory relief under counts I and III of their complaint. Pursuant to section 404(j) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1344(j), plaintiffs challenge the legality of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to withdraw its longstanding objections to the State of Michigan issuing a "dredge and...
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