Legal Opinion
Indiana Department of Environmental Management v. Twin Eagle LLC
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided September 23, 2003No. 49S00-0204-CV-237PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION TO TRANSFER PURSUANT TO APPELLATE RULE 56(a)
BOEHM, Justice.
The federal Clean Water Act ("CWA") prohibits "the discharge of any pollutant" into "waters of the United States" without a permit. Similarly, Indiana state environmental law generally requires a permit to discharge pollutants into "waters of the state." Ind. Admin. Code tit. 327, r. 5-2-2 (2001). Twin Eagle, the plaintiff here, seeks to undertake a project that would put dredged and fill material in certain wetlands and waters on a site in Allen County, Indiana. This material is a "pollutant" as the term is used in the CWA…
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