Legal Opinion
Friends of Wild Swan v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 25, 2003No. 00-36001, 00-36004 & 00-36013PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
In this action, brought by five environmental groups (collectively “Friends”) under 33 U.S.C. § 1313, the district court found that the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) violated the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) and the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) by arbitrarily and capriciously approving Montana’s 1998 list of water quality limited segments (‘WQLSs”) and corresponding total maximum daily loads (“TMDLs”) submitted to EPA pursuant CWA § 303(d). The district court remanded to the EPA with a deadline for establishment of TMDLs for all WQLSs and provided that any failure to…
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