County of Suffolk v. United States

OPINION

ANDEWELT, Judge.

This action involves two related federal grant agreements1 between plaintiff, County of Suffolk, New York (Suffolk), and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) covering the design and construction of a waste water treatment project known as the Suffolk County Southwest Sewer District No. 3 (the Project). The agreements, entered pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., obliged the EPA to pay a fixed percentage of “allowable” costs for the Project. In this action, plaintiff contends that the EPA improperly disallowed…