Tancer v. Wales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that EPA letter regarding the city’s as-yet-unfiled application for renewal of a modified NPDES permit was not reviewable until EPA actually issued the permit in question
• concluding that a letter setting forth an agency’s legal position on renewal of a permit was not a final agency action until a final decision was issued on the permit
• reasoning that letter did not mark consummation of decisionmaking process because it was only “upon completion of the permit appeal process” that agency would decide applicability of statute
• reasoning that letter did not mark consum- mation of decisionmaking process because it was only “upon completion of the permit appeal process” that agency would decide applicability of statute
• for an agency action to be final, it must “impose an obligation, deny a right or fix some legal relationship”
• letter indicating that the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-431 §§ 1–2, 108 Stat. 4396–97 (1994), would apply to a city’s as-yet-unfiled application to renew its NPDES permit was not a final action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).