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AK DEPT. OF ENVTL. CONSERV. v. EPA, ET AL. (36431)

    Order dated: 02/24/03
    Docket number: 02-658
    Action:
        The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in upholding the EPA's assertion of authority to second-guess a permitting decision made by the State of Alaska--which had been delegated permitting authority under the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.--in conflict with decisions of this Court and other federal courts of appeals establishing the division of federal-state jurisdiction under the Act and similar statutory programs.

An opinion has been handed down: