United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action seeking to compel a water district to obtain a permit to discharge pollutants into a lake, judgment for Plaintiffs is reversed, where the EPA's NPDES Water Transfers Rule, which reasonably construed the Clean Water Act (CWA), stated that a transfer of a pollutant from one navigable body of water to another is not a "discharge of a pollutant" under the CWA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/04/2009
• Published 06/04/2009

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, CARNES, Circuit Judge, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Edward Nutt, West Palm Beach, FL, for Wehle., Ellen J. Durkee, Andrew J. Doyle, U.S. DOJ, ENRD, Apell. Sec., Washington, DC, for U.S., Jonathan Alan Glogau, Tallahassee, FL, Daniel H. Thompson, Berger, Singerman, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, John A. Bryson, Holland & Hart, LLP, Washington, DC, Rick J. Burgess, Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Timothy S. Bishop, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP, Chicago, IL, for South Fla. Water Management Dist., Dione C. Carroll, Miami, FL, for Miccosukee Tribe Indians of Fla., David George Guest, Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund, Tallahassee, FL, for Florida Wildlife Federation., Dexter W. Lehtinen, Lehtinen Riedi Brooks Moncarz, P.A., Miami, FL, John E. Childe, Palmyra, PA, Sonia Escobio O'Donnell, Jorden Burt, LLP, David P. Reiner, Reiner & Reiner, P.A., Miami, FL, Monica K. Reimer, Earthjustice, Tallahassee, FL, for Friends of the Everglades., Catherine Derdeyn Little, Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, GA, William Perry Pendley, Lakewood, CO, Charles R. Sensiba, Van Ness Feldman, P.C., Washington, DC, Stephen R. Farris, Atty. Gen. of N.M., Santa Fe, NM, Steven Geoffrey Gieseler, Pacific Legal Found., Stuart, FL, Alan H. Kleinman, New York City, Kenneth G. Spillias, Lewis, Longman & Walker, PA, West Palm Beach, FL, Daniel E. Estrin, White Plains, NY, James Patrick Longest, Jr., Durham, NC, Richard P. Mather, Sr., Pa. Dept. of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA, Lauren Elizabeth Brown, Waterkeeper Alliance, Irvington, NY, Peter D. Nichols, Trout, Raley, Montano, Witwer & Freeman, PC, Denver, CO, Kenneth Hayman, Fla. Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Fl, P. Stephen Gidiere, III, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Sam Kalen, Van ness Feldman, P.C., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae.