Environmentalists File District Court Suits Over Stormwater Petition Denials

摘要

Environmentalists have filed two district court suits challenging EPA's denial of their petitions seeking expansion ol Clean Water Act (CWA) stormwater permit mandates in impaired watersheds, teeing up substantive litigation on the merits of those petitions, after earlier appellate suits over the same petitions were stayed. Four environmental groups filed suit May 8 in federal district courts in California and Maryland, asking judges in both venues to order EPA to exercise its rarely used CWA residual designation authority (RDA) to require stormwater permits for commercial, residential and other properties that are currently exempt, even though they are located in watersheds impaired by polluted stormwater runoff. Relevant documents are available on InsideEPA.com. (Doc. ID: 201695)