United States Second Circuit

Insofar as it allows compliance through "restoration measures," defendant's Regulation Addressing Cooling Water Intake Structures for New Facilities contradicts Congress's clearly expressed intent. These provisions are remanded to defendant. (Republished opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/03/2004
• Published 02/23/2004

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, OAKES and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Reed W. Super, Riverkeeper, Inc., Garrison, New York (Karl S. Coplan, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc., White Plains, New York, of counsel), for Riverkeeper, Inc., Karl S. Coplan, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, Inc., White Plains, New York, for Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Waterkeeper Alliance, Soundkeeper, Inc., Scenic Hudson, Inc., Save the Bay:  People for Narragansett Bay, Friends of Casco Bay, American Littoral Society, Delaware Riverkeeper, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Inc., New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, Ocean Conservancy, Inc., Michael R. Lozeau & Deborah A. Sivas, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Stanford, California, for Santa Monica Baykeeper, San Diego Baykeeper, Cook Inlet Keeper, California Coastkeeper, Columbia Riverkeeper, Petitioners., Kristy A.N. Bulleit, Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Utility Water Act Group, Petitioner., Russell S. Frye, Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC, Washington, D.C. (Mark L. Austrian, on the brief), for Manufacturers Intake Structure Coalition, Petitioner., David R. Wooley, Clean Air Task Force, Albany, New York (David W. Marshall, Jonathan F. Lewis, on the brief), for Healthlink, Hoosier Environmental Council, Michigan Environmental Council, New England Clean Water Action, Ohio Environmental Council, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, and Western Organization of Resource Councils, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott J. Jordan & Cynthia J. Morris, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.