ALABAMA v. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Civil Action No. 15-696 (EGS), Civil Action No. 15-699 (EGS).

704 F.Supp.3d 20 (2023)

State of ALABAMA, et al., Plaintiffs, and Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board of the City of Montgomery, Alabama, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, et al., Defendants, and State of Georgia, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. Alabama Power Company, Plaintiff, v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

Signed November 9, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Aaron Earnhardt, John C. Neiman, Jr., Maynard Nexsen PC, Birmingham, AL, Edmund G. LaCour, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff State of Alabama in No. 15-696.

C. Frederick Beckner, III, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, James A. Byram, Jr., Balch & Bingham LLP, Montgomery, AL, Thomas L. Casey, III, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff Alabama Power Company in No. 15-696.

Patrick L.W. Sefton, Capell & Howard, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff-Intervenors Water Works & Sanitary Sewer Board of the City of Montgomery, Alabama in No. 15-696.

Frank G. Taylor, Michael M. Linder, Jr., The Atchison Firm, PC, Mobile, AL, Robert Earl Sasser, Sasser, Sefton, & Brown P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff-Intervenors Board of Water And Sewer Commissioners of the City of Mobile in No. 15-696.

Jackson Roger Sharman, III, W. Larkin Radney, IV, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Robert Earl Sasser, Sasser, Sefton, & Brown P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff-Intervenors Lake Martin Resource Association, Inc., Russell Lands, Inc. in No. 15-696.

Angela Ellis, DOJ-ENRD, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Elliot Higgins, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Laura Williamson Duncan, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Galveston, TX, for Defendants United States Army Corps of Engineers, John M. McHugh, Jo-Ellen Darcy, Thomas P. Bostick, C. David Turner, John J. Chytka in No. 15-696.

Richard Allen Horder, John Curtis Allen, Shelly Jacobs Ellerhorst, Kazmarek Mowrey Cloud Laseter, LLP Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, Christopher M. Carr, State of Georgia, Office of the Attorney General Attorney General for the State of Georgia, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Intervenor State of Georgia in No. 15-696.

John L. Fortuna, Lewis Bondurant Jones, Jones Fortuna LLP, Decatur, GA, for Defendant-Intervenors Atlanta Regional Commission, Cobb County Marietta Water Authority in No. 15-696.

David A. Fitzgerald, Davison Van Cleve, PC, Seattle, WA, for Amici Alabama Municipal Electric Authority in No. 15-696.

C. Frederick Beckner, III, Peter Douglas Keisler, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas L. Casey, III, Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham, AL, James A. Byram, Jr., Balch & Bingham LLP, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff in No. 15-699.

Ruth Ann Storey, U.S. Department of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Douglas Michael Bushey, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, Laura Williamson Duncan, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Galveston, TX, for Defendants in No. 15-699.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

Table of Contents

I. Introduction... 44

II. Background...45

A. Statutory and Regulatory Background...45

1. Clean Water Act...45

2. National Environmental Policy Act...48

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