The City of Columbia, South Carolina v. Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, an Agency of the United States of America

.HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

The Administrator of the Environmental. Protection Agency appeals from a judgment of the district court ruling that the City of Columbia, South Carolina, need not comply with the federal real property acquisition procedures, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4655 and 4651, in connection with an EPA construction grant for a sewer line to a wastewater facility. We reverse.

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On June 16, 1976, the City of Columbia adopted a resolution approving a plan to build a new wastewater facility, the “Columbia Area Wastewater Facility Plan.” The city applied to EPA, pursuant to § 201 of the…