CHESAPEAKE BAY, ETC. v. VA. STATE WATER CONTROL BD.

Civ. A. No. CA77-0376-R.

453 F.Supp. 122 (1978)

CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION, INC. and Citizens Against the Refinery's Effects, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. VIRGINIA STATE WATER CONTROL BOARD et al., Defendants.

United Stated District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

June 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick M. McSweeney, Richmond, Va., with Bruce J. Terris, Washington, D. C., Thomas B. Lewis, Staff Atty., Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Md., for plaintiffs.

Norman Olitsky, Portsmouth, Va., Gordon B. Tayloe, Jr., City Atty., Portsmouth, Va., for intervening defendants.

Patrick J. Cafferty, Jr., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant U. S.

David E. Evans, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for defendant Va. State Water Control Bd.

Gerald L. Baliles, Richmond, Va., and J. Michael Hines, Washington, D. C., for defendant Hampton Roads Energy Co., Inc.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. and Citizens Against the Refinery's Effects, Inc. seek in this suit to challenge the issuance of a discharge permit by the defendant Virginia State Water Control Board (State Board) to defendant Hampton Roads Energy Company on February 18, 1977, for a proposed petroleum refinery to be located in Portsmouth, Virginia. The permit is a national pollutant discharge elimination system...

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