Legal Opinion
Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 31, 1994No. 93-2340PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), respondent before us, refused to hold an evidentiary hearing regarding its determination that a facility in Mayaguez owned by petitioner, Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), must fully meet the Clean Water Act’s secondary treatment requirements for publicly owned treatment works (POTWs). The gist of EPA’s decision was straightforward: having previously established secondary treatment requirements because PRASA’s POTW emitted pollutants into stressed waters, it determined that PRASA had failed to…
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