Water

Katten’s Water Practice covers all major features and elements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program, including the NPDES stormwater program. Our lawyers are experienced in wastewater treatment plant operations and have developed strong working relationships with some of the most respected wastewater consultants and engineers in the United States. Katten attorneys carefully track developments with EPA’s stormwater and energy extraction initiatives in keeping with the Agency’s National Enforcement Initiatives.

Representative clients include one of the nation’s top five largest homebuilders; a Fortune 500 global food company; a multinational civil engineering and construction materials and services company; major energy and utility companies; and a specialty batch chemical processing facility.

Recent engagements include:

• Representing one of the nation’s largest providers of sustainable water and wastewater management solutions in Clean Water Act (CWA) civil and criminal enforcement proceedings.
• Providing advice and counsel in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations for major oil and gas companies and a hydraulic fracturing technology company, including legislative and regulatory tracking.
• Representing a key figure in connection with criminal, civil and congressional investigations into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• Providing advice and counsel in connection with the design, installation and permitting of wastewater treatment systems.
• Representing a host of companies in various industries facing federal and state CWA criminal and civil enforcement actions and CWA Section 308 information requests.

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