Appellate court judges are suggesting the Army Corps of Engineers may lack discretion when deciding whether to respond to comments on the impacts of its Clean Water Act (CWA) permit decisions, even in cases where the government does not believe commenters are proposing options for limiting "significant" harms to wetlands and other water resources. During oral argument Sept. 22 in Sierra Club, et al. v. Robert Van Antwerp, et al, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, two of the three judges on the appellate panel said the government should have responded to comments from environmentalists who were seeking to scale back a permit the Corps was proposing to issue to a developer wanting to build a shopping center on wetlands and other sensitive land.
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机译：上诉法院的法官建议，即使在政府不认为评论者提出限制选择的方案的情况下，陆军工程兵团在决定是否对有关其《清洁水法》（CWA）许可决定的影响的评论做出回应时也可能缺乏判断力。对湿地和其他水资源的严重危害”。 9月22日，在Sierra Club等人的口头辩论中。诉罗伯特·范·安特卫普（Robert Van Antwerp）等人在美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院，上诉小组的三名法官中有两名法官说，政府应该对寻求减少许可证数量的环保主义者的评论做出回应。军团提议向希望在湿地和其他敏感土地上建造购物中心的开发商发行。
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