Rouse & Associates—Ship Road Land Ltd. Partnership v. Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board

COLINS, Judge.

Rouse and Associates (Rouse) has filed a petition for review in the nature of a complaint in equity (petition for review) in this Court’s original jurisdiction, which petition for review seeks to have this Court revoke the Environmental Quality Board’s (EQB) redesignation of Valley Creek from a less protected level, “Cold Water Fishes” (CWF), to the highest protected level, “Exceptional Value” (EV). Presently before this Court are preliminary objections to Rouse’s complaint filed by the EQB and the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) (collectively, respondents).

Rouse’s…