EPA is seeking to dismiss a coal mining company's challenge of its landmark proposal to veto a previously issued mountaintop mining permit, arguing in part that the agency has authority to retroactively revoke permits after they have been handed out by the Army Corps of Engineers, according to a just-filed agency brief in the case.rnIn a June 7 motion to dismiss, EPA says Mingo Logan Coal Company Inc.'s challenge is invalid because it is being brought prior to final agency action and the company has not exhausted its potential administrative remedies. EPA also says the company's request for the court to grant relief "under the extraordinary doctrine of 'non-statutory review'" falls short because the company does not dispute EPA's authority to veto but simply the timing in which it exercised that authority and because it cannot show a clear statutory violation on EPA's part.
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机译：EPA正试图驳回一家煤炭开采公司对其具有里程碑意义的提案的否决的质疑，即否决先前颁发的山顶采矿许可证，部分原因是该机构有权在陆军工程兵团发放许可证后追溯撤销许可证。在6月7日的驳回动议中，EPA说Mingo Logan Coal Company Inc.的质疑是无效的，因为它是在最终代理商采取行动之前提出的，并且该公司还没有耗尽其潜在的行政管理权补救措施。 EPA还说，该公司“根据“非法定审查”的非同寻常的原则”要求法院给予救济的请求未能实现，因为该公司不质疑EPA否决权，而只是对其行使该否决权的时间提出异议，并且不能证明EPA有明显的法定违法行为。
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