Manufactured Housing Institute v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

Petition for review denied by published opinion. Judge WIDENER wrote the opinion, in which Judge MOTZ and Judge DUNCAN concurred.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge.

This case is about federal regulation of water piped through various publicly and privately owned systems for public use. It specifically concerns a practice known as submetering, which, simply defined, is property owners metering and billing their tenants for water purchased by the owners but distributed to and actually used by the tenants. In 2003, to encourage conservation of water, respondent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed…