EPA, Water Authorities, Western States Challenge Remand of Water Transfer Rule

摘要

Appeals have been filed by the Environmental Protection Agency, water authorities, Western states and other defendants opposing a federal district court's remand of a rule exempting water transfers from Clean Water Act permit requirements (Catskill Mountains Chapter of Trout Unlimited Inc. v. EPA, S.D.N.Y., No. 08-CV-5606, notice of appeal 5/30/14). Filing a notice of appeal in the New York case May 30 were several western water districts, including those for San Francisco, San Diego and Las Vegas. New York City, which uses water transfers to manage the upstate watershed for its drinking water system, filed May 29, as did the EPA and the South Florida Water Management District. Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, part of a coalition of Western states, filed May 28.