Dave wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:53:24 -0700, said:


Regretfully, a recent court ruling cancelled this permit exemption. EPA is required by the court decision to
develop and implement by September 30, 2008 a national permit system for ALL vessels in the United States for a variety of normal
operational discharges.


Before getting all excited by this, what court made the decision and what is
the name of the case? I find that interest groups have a tendency to wildly
overstate things or get them wrong. Is it a single Federal District Court, a
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (in either of these cases other Districts
or Circuits may reach a different conclusion) or perhaps even a State court?
And is the above a fair summary of what the court actually ordered? Without
more information, you can't tell.

United States District Court of Northern California
http://snipurl.com/1ouif

"federal district court ruling in the case of Northwest Environmental
Advocates, et. al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al."
http://snipurl.com/1ouim

http://www.boatblue.org/
http://www.boatblue.org/news.aspx?id=15249

http://www.boatus.com/gov/

DT