FRIENDS OF THE WILD SWAN, INC. v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. CV 97-35-M-DWM.

130 F.Supp.2d 1184 (1999)

FRIENDS OF THE WILD SWAN, INC., Alliance for the Wild Rockies Inc., Ecology Center, Inc., American Wildlands, Inc., Montana Environmental Information Center Inc., Plaintiffs, v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Carol Browner, Administrator, Jack McGraw, Region VIII EPA Administrator, Defendants, and State of Montana, ex rel. Department of Environmental Quality, Montana Wood Products Association, Montana Stockgrowers Association, and Montana Farm Bureau Federation, Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Montana. Missoula Division.

Order Amending Opinion, December 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack R. Tuholske, Missoula, MT, Jory Ruggiero, Bozeman, MT, for Friends of the Wild Swan, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Ecology Center Inc., American Wildlands, plaintiffs.

Claudia L. Massman, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Helena, MT, Jack R. Tuholske, Missoula, MT, Jory Ruggiero, Bozeman, MT, for Montana Environmental Information Center Inc., plaintiff.

Deanne L. Sandholm, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Helena, MT, Daniel R. Dertke, U.S. Department of Justice — Environmental Defense Section, Washington, DC, Margaret J. Livingston, Associate Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, CO, for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carol M. Browner, Jack Region VIII EPA Administrator, defendants.

John F. North, Claudia L. Massman, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Helena, MT, Jane Amdahl, Dept. of Environmental Quality, Helena, MT, for State of Montana, ex rel. Department of Environmental Quality, intervenor defendant.

Rebecca W. Watson, Jeffrey M. Hindoien, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, Helena, MT, for Montana Wood Products Association, intervenor defendant.

Rebecca W. Watson, Jeffrey M. Hindoien, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, Helena, MT, John E. Bloomquist, Doney Crowley & Bloomquist, Helena, MT, for Montana Stockgrowers Association, Montana Farm Bureau Federation, intervenor defendants.


ORDER

MOLLOY, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, Friends of the Wild Swan Inc., and four other environmental organizations, instituted this case against the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), and the EPA's Administrator, Carol Browner, to compel the EPA to perform certain statutory duties required by section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. ("CWA"). The law pertains to certain steps toward ridding Montana's rivers, streams...

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