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PUERTO RICO SUN OIL CO. v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. 92-2359.

8 F.3d 73 (1993)

PUERTO RICO SUN OIL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Brager with whom Richard S. Davis, Joseph C. Stanko, Jr., Patricia Ross McCubbin, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, DC, Leonardo Andrade-Lugo, Jose A. Cepeda-Rodriguez, Carlos A. Rodriguez-Vidal, Eli Matos-Alicea, Goldman Antonetti Cordova & Axtmayer, Hato Rey, PR, and Edward J. Ciechon, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, were on brief, for petitioner.

Alan D. Greenberg, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Environmental Defense Section, Dept. of Justice, with whom Myles E. Flint, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Randolph L. Hill and Meyer Scolnick, Asst. Regional Counsel, E.P.A., Washington, DC, were on brief, for respondent.

Before SELYA, CYR and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

In August 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a pollution discharge permit to Puerto Rico Sun Oil Company ("the Company"). In doing so EPA complied with the substantive requirements of the governing statute and the procedures set forth in the statute and EPA regulations. Only the result gives cause for concern, and that concern is not allayed by the agency's explanation for its decision. In our judgment, the result is so odd that...

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