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IN RE WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS CORP.

No. 99 CA 1726.

769 So.2d 1278 (2000)

In the Matter of WESTLAKE PETROCHEMICALS CORPORATION ETHYLENE PLANT PART 70, Permit No. 0520-00145-VO.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

November 3, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suzanne S. Dickey, New Orleans, for Appellants Calcasieu League for Environmental Action Now and Louisiana Environmental Action Network.

C. Eston Singletary, Patrick D. Gallaugher, Jr., Robert E. Landry, Lake Charles, for Appellee Westlake Petrochemicals Corporation.

Herman Robinson, Donald Trahan, Baton Rouge, for Appellee Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Before: WHIPPLE and FOGG, JJ., and BAGNERIS, J. Pro Tem.

FOGG, J.

The issue presented in this appeal is whether the district court properly dismissed an appeal from a ruling of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) as abandoned pursuant to LSA-R.S. 30:2050.21(G). For the following reasons, we reverse and remand.

In 1989, Westlake Petrochemicals Corporation ("Westlake") constructed an ethylene manufacturing complex near Sulphur, Louisiana in Calcasieu Parish. In October of 1995, Westlake applied...

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