United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's issuance of a general permit authorizing all landowners engaged in "suburban development" in a large contiguous area of the Florida panhandle to discharge limited types and amounts of dredged and fill material into some, but far from all, federal waters in the Permit area, subject to specific conditions, is upheld as the Permit's special conditions effectively cabin the scope of permitted activities and mitigate any environmental impacts such that the Permit is a proper exercise of defendant's general permitting authority granted by Congress.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/07/2007
• Published 12/07/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before BLACK, HULL and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Melanie Shepherdson, Nat. Resources Def. Council, Washington, DC, Lesley Blackner, Blackner, Stone & Associates, Palm Beach, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Bryson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Env. & Nat. Res. Div., Washington, DC, Wayne E. Flowers, Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A., Jacksonville, FL, for Appellees.