FRIENDS OF CRYSTAL RIVER v. U.S. E.P.A.

Nos. 92-1979, 92-1983.

35 F.3d 1073 (1994)

FRIENDS OF the CRYSTAL RIVER, a Michigan non-profit corporation; National Wildlife Federation, a District of Columbia non-profit corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, an Agency of the Federal Government; William K. Reilly, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. (92-1979), Defendants-Appellants, Roland Harmes, Director, Michigan Department of Natural Resources (92-1983), Defendant-Appellant, Kuras Properties, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Carol Bambery, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, Lansing, MI, Thomas A. Baird, Okemos, MI, Robert G. Dreher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, DC (argued and briefed), James Mark Olson, John D. Noonan, Rosi, Olsen & Levine, Traverse City, MI, Eleanor K. Roemer, Chicago, IL, Mark C. VanPutten, Ann Arbor, MI, John E. Grenke, Monaghan, LoPrete, McDonald, Yakima & Grenke, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for Friends of Crystal River, National Wildlife Federation, Michigan United Conservation Clubs, Inc., Michigan Council of Trout Unlimited, Lake Michigan Federation, Sierra Club and Izaak Walton League of America, Indiana Div.

David J. Kaplan, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Catherine A. Winer, E.P.A., David C. Shilton (argued and briefed), Dirk D. Snel, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, Daniel M. LaVille, Office of U.S. Atty., Grand Rapids, MI, for U.S.E.P.A., William K. Reilly, and LaJuana S. Wilcher.

Stephen M. Rideout, Office of Atty. Gen., Natural Resources Div. (argued and briefed), Thomas J. Emery, Office of Atty. Gen., Michigan Liquor Control Com'n, Lansing, MI, for Roland Harmes.

Gregory L. McClellan (briefed), Michael S. Aashton, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Lansing, MI, for Michigan Ass'n of Home Builders, amicus curiae.

Before: LIVELY, JONES, and MILBURN, Circuit Judges.


NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Defendants-Appellants United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and Roland Harmes, appeal the district court's grant of a permanent injunction and declaratory relief to Plaintiffs-Appellees, Friends of the Crystal River, et al. For the reasons stated herein, we AFFIRM the district court's decision.

I.

A.

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act ("FWPCA"), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1376...

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