United States Ninth Circuit

EPA letter to city stating that city should reapply for renewed permit to discharge sewage into ocean under the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act, 33 USC 1311, is not a "final agency action" because the city can still appeal to the Environmental Appeals Board.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2001
• Decided 03/13/2001
• Published 03/13/2001

Judges

• DAVID R. THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PREGERSON, CANBY, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Martin F. McDermott, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellants., John R. Reese, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.