United States Eleventh Circuit

Petition for review of a Final Rule promulgated by the EPA, which amended the current federal underwater injection control requirements for Class I municipal disposal wells in Florida, is denied where: 1) the EPA afforded sufficient public notice of both the elimination of a non-endangerment demonstration requirement and the application of the Final Rule to new Class I wells as required by the APA; 2) petitioners failed to show that the Final Rule is inconsistent with the EPA's statutory authority granted under the Safe Drinking Water Act; and 3) the Final Rule was a reasonable statutory interpretation, sufficiently supported by the administrative record, and not arbitrary and capricious.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2008
• Published 06/06/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before BIRCH, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David M. Murray, Angelique Ortega Fridman, Miami, FL, Edward P. de la Parte, Jr., de la Parte & Gilbert, P.A., Tampa, FL, Phillip Clarke Gildan, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, Eliot B. Kula, Elliot H. Scherker, Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, FL, Reed D. Rubinstein, Mark E. Solomons, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Washington, DC, Jamie A. Cole, Weiss, Serota, Helfman, Pastoriza, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Lawrence D. Sanders, Turner Environmental Law Clinic-Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA, David G. Bookbinder, Sierra Club, Washington, DC, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew Oakes, Pamela S. Tonglao, Lily N. Chinn, Heather Gange, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Charles R. Fletcher, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Tampa, FL, for Respondents.