This Primer is largely the work of James W. Moorman, who presented it as an "Outline of Federal Environmental Law for the Practicing Lawyer" at a conference on law and the environment held at Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, on September 11 and 12, 1969. The proceedings of the conference, including Mr. Moorman's paper, appear in Law and the Environment, Walker and Company (New York: October, 1970).

In the present "Primer for the Practice of Federal Environmental Law," the Environmental Law Reporter has updated, rearranged, and modified slightly Mr. Moorman's paper to take account of developments in environmental law over the past year. The Reporter is indebted to the Environmental Law Society of the Harvard Law School for assistance in preparing the Primer for pre-publication use in a two-day intensive course in environmental law held at the Harvard Law School on October 23 and 24, 1970. The Environmental Law Institute and the Environmental Law Society were joined in the sponsorship of the course by the Boston University School of Law and the Conservation Law Foundation of Boston, Massachusetts. The Conservation Foundation of Washington, D.C., also contributed.