The Great Bay Municipal Coalition, representing the municipalities of Dover and Rochester, New Hampshire (“Coalition”), petitions the Environmental Appeals Board (“Board”) to review an effluent limitation for total nitrogen (“TN”) in a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit (“Permit”) that the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1 (“Region”), issued on November 16, 2012, to the Town of Newmarket, New Hampshire, for its wastewater treatment plant.

Henry Stevenson and Parkwood Land Co. (together, "Parkwood") appeal from an Initial Decision issued by Regional Judicial Officer ("RJO") Pat Rankin on February 11, 2013. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA" or "Agency"), Region 6 ("Region"), in turn, filed a cross appeal. The Agency's administrative complaint charged Parkwood with violations of Clean Water Act ("CWA" or "Act") sections 301(a) and 404, 33 U.S.C. §§1311(a) and 1344, when it discharged fill material into wetlands while repairing a levee by constructing a truck ramp and truck turnaround on the levee.

Region 9 (“Region”) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or “Agency”) appeals from Administrative Law Judge Barbara A. Gunning’s (“ALJ”) Initial Decision in In re San Pedro Forklift, Docket No. CWA-09-2009-0006, issued January 27, 2012. The decision dismissed a complaint the Region had filed against San Pedro Forklift, Inc.

In this appeal, petitioners – WaterLegacy, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, the Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa – challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5’s approval of a water quality standards variance issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to Mesabi Nugget Delaware, LLC.

Munce’s Superior Petroleum Products, Inc. (MSPPI) appeals from an Initial Decision and Default Order issued by Acting Presiding Officer (APO) LeAnn Jensen pursuant to 40 C.F.R. §22.17(a). The default finding was based on the failure of MSPPI to file a timely answer to an administrative complaint issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 1 (Region). The Region’s complaint alleged violations of the requirement to respond to a request for information under Clean Water Act (CWA) section 308, 33 U.S.C.

Section 511 of the Clean Water Act requires that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comply with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements when issuing a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to a “new source” as defined in CWA §306. This consolidated case involves issuance of an NPDES permit that U.S. EPA Region 8 issued to the Three Affiliated Tribes, comprising the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, allowing wastewater discharges from a new source.

In April 2010, ArcelorMittal Cleveland Inc. requested that the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), which administers the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program in Ohio, approve an increase in the current permit limits for ammonia-nitrogen discharges from two iron blast furnaces at Arcelor’s Cleveland steel mill. Ohio EPA agreed that Arcelor’s proposed new limits would meet the water quality protection and other requirements of applicable law, and proposed to approve the requested increase.

On February 14, 2005, Ms. Cathy Cleveland, a pro se petitioner, filed a notice of petition for review in connection with a Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) permit issued jointly by the Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (“EFSEC”) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), Region 10, to BP West Coast Products, L.L.C. (“BP”), for construction of a 720-megawatt natural gas-fired cogeneration facility (the “Facility”) adjacent to BP’s existing Cherry Point Refinery.

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