Legal Opinion
Quivira Mining Company and Homestake Mining Company v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1985No. 83-2338, 83-2339 and 83-2356PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SAFFELS, District Judge.
Petitioners in these consolidated cases challenge the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency [hereinafter EPA] under the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33 U.S.C. § 1251, et seq., to regulate the discharge of pollutants from uranium mining and milling facilities into gullies or “arroyos.”
Quivira Mining Company [formerly Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp.] is contesting EPA permits (National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permits) to two of its uranium milling or mining facilities near Grants, New Mexico. Those facilities are referred to as Ambrosia Lake, which…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Richardson v. PeralesSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Consolo v. Federal Maritime CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Crowell v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by35 opinions
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- United States v. OverholtCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002
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