United States Tenth Circuit

The Clean Water Act does not give the EPA the authority to regulate nonpoint source discharges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/08/2001
• Published 08/08/2001

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, REAVLEY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kristen L. Boyles,Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, (Stephen D. Mashuda, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, and James S. Angell, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Denver, CO, with her on the briefs), for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Oakley, (Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, David A. Carson and Greer S. Goldman, with him on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for Appellee Environmental Protection Agency., Claudia L. Massman, Special Assistant Attorney General, Department of Environmental Quality, Helena, MT, for Appellee State of Montana., Rebecca W. Watson, Gough, Shanahan, Johnson & Waterman, and John Bloomquist, Doney, Crowley, Bloomquist & Uda, Helena, MT, filed a brief, on behalf of Appellee Western Environmental Trade Association.