Legal Opinion
Northwest Environmental Defense Center v. Brown
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided March 1, 2007No. Civil 06-1270-KIPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
KING, District Judge.
Plaintiff Northwest Environmental Defense Center (“NEDC”) brings this action under the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) concerning discharges of stormwater from ditches alongside logging roads in the Tillamook State Forest. NEDC seeks to require defendants to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permits, which NEDC contends are required by the CWA in this situation. Before the court are State Defendants’ (Marvin Brown, Oregon State Forester, and members of the Oregon Board of Forestry, Stephen Hobbs, Barbara Craig, Diane Snyder, Larry…
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