Public Interest Research Group of New Jersey, Inc., Friends of the Earth in No. 93-5721 v. Hercules, Inc. In No. 93-5720

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• holding that a citizen suit plaintiff does not have to identify the specific date of each alleged violation, particularly for violations that occurred or are discovered after the initial notice
• remanding matter to Magistrate Judge to consider “arguments and documents ... not fully presented to Magistrate Judge.....”
• remanding to the district court with instruction to “reinstate those discharge violations which are of the same type ... as the discharge violations included in the plaintiffs’ 60-day notice letter”
• claim for monitoring violation could proceed when notice described a discharge violation for the same limitation at the same outfall on the same day
• “We find that notice of one facet of an effluent infraction is sufficient to permit the recipient of the notice to identify other violations arising from the same episode.”
• “We find that notice of one facet of an effluent infraction is sufficient to permit the recipient of the notice to identify other violations arising from the same episode.”

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