Legal Opinion
Association to Protect Hammersley, Eld, and Totten Inlets, a Washington Non-Profit Corporation v. Taylor Resources, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 6, 2002No. 00-35667PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge.
This case poses the interesting question whether the mussel shells, mussel feces and other biological materials emitted from mussels grown on harvesting rafts, and thereby entering the beautiful waters of Puget Sound, constitute the discharge of pollutants from a point source without a permit in violation of the Clean Water Act (“the Act”), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1376. Preliminarily, we must also assess procedural issues that affect whether we now can decide this question.
The Association to Protect Hammersley, Eld, and Totten Inlets (“APHETI”), a non-profit organization…
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