Opposing Deadline Suit, EPA Says Wyoming CCR Application Incomplete

EPA is urging a federal district court against imposing a deadline on the agency to act on Wyoming’s application to operate its own coal combustion residuals (CCR) permitting program, charging that the state’s application is incomplete, and thus has not triggered the agency’s nondiscretionary duty to act under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). EPA filed an April 8 response brief to the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming in the suit State of Wyoming v. EPA...