Administrative Law

- Slip Opinions
- Published Decisions
- Unpublished Final Orders
- Significant Interlocutory Decisions
"The Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB” or “the Board”) is an impartial appellate tribunal established by regulation to hear administrative appeals under the major environmental statutes that EPA administers. The EPA Administrator has delegated to the Board the authority to hear these appeals. The Board is independent of all Agency components outside the immediate office of the Office of the Administrator. The Board’s caseload consists primarily of appeals from federal permitting decisions and administrative civil penalty decisions as well as petitions for reimbursement of costs incurred in complying with cleanup orders issued under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act."

"The EPA Environmental Appeals Board Decisions file contains decisions issued by the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) and decisions issued by the EPA Administrator, Chief Judicial Officer, and Judicial Officers prior to the institution of the Appeals Board."

"Administrative Law decisions and orders issued by the Administrative Law Judges for the Department of Interior."

IBLA

"The Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals Administrative Law Judge Decisions file contains Administrative Law Decisions issued by the Interior Office of Hearings and Appeals addressing surface mining and related issues. This file was created by for the Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM)."

- Dept of Commerce NOAA Decisions (Nov 1976+)
- Dept of Interior NOAA Decisions (Jul 1971-current)

"Appeals from a variety of decisions of the Bureau of Land Management, including but not limited to decisions regarding mining, grazing, energy development, royalty management, timber harvesting, wildfire management, recreation, wild horse and burro management, cadastral surveys, Alaska land conveyances, rights of way, land exchanges, and trespass actions: Appeals from decisions of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue and the Deputy Assistant Secretary - Natural Resources Revenue regarding royalty management; Appeals from decisions of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement; Appeals from decisions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding minerals management on Indian lands; Appeals from decisions of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement regarding surface coal mining operations; and Appeals from decisions of administrative law judges in OHA's Departmental Cases Hearings Division."

"The Administrative Materials file contains full and partial texts of the Environmental Law Reporter Administrative Materials volume from the Environmental Law Institute. There are four different types of documents. The first two are abstracts and case summaries of Records of Decisions (RODs) issued by the EPA under the Superfund statute (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act) and decisions issued by EPA Administrative Law judges and the EPA Appeals Board under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The remaining are full-text informal agency memoranda written by agency officials as internal guidance for the enforcement of federal environmental laws and full-text Executive Orders on environmental concerns."

"Decisions for the following EPA administrative dockets are included: Clean Air Act decisions, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act decisions, Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act decisions, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act decisions, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System decisions, Prevention of Significant Deterioration decisions, Resource Conservation & Recovery Act decisions, Clean Water Act decisions, Toxic Substances Control Act decisions, Underground Injection Control decisions, Medical Waste Tracking Act decisions, Public Water Supply decisions, Marine Protection, Research & Sanctuaries Act decisions, Safe Drinking Water Act decisions, Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act decisions, and Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act decisions."

"The EPA Consent Decree file contains full-text consent decrees and settlement agreements, as well as orders and motions related to the entry of consent decrees and settlements in cases brought by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency."

"EPA Regional Presiding Officers and Regional Judicial Officers perform adjudicatory functions and act as Agency neutrals in administrative cases. EPA began using regional adjudicators in 1986 in an effort to expedite Due Process hearings in administrative cases. Regional Presiding Officers serve as adjudicators in EPA cases not governed by the Administrative Procedures Act, including cases involving the administrative assessment of civil penalties as enforcement sanctions under the Clean Water Act (CWA); Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); and Oil Pollution Prevention Regulations."

"Operating permits are legally enforceable documents that permitting authorities issue to air pollution sources after the source has begun to operate. Most Title V permits are issued by state and local permitting authorities. These permits are often called part 70 permits because the regulations that establish minimum standards for state permit programs are found in the Code of Federal Regulations at 40 CFR part 70."