ELR Citation: ELR 20085
No(s). s. 72-1796 et al (D.C. Cir. Feb 9, 1973)

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, reverses the denial of further injunctive relief against the issuance of a special land use permit for construction purposes on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project. The court concludes that the grant of a right-of-way of 200 feet on either side of the pipeline would violate §28 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, which authorizes only 25. The majority refuses to reach claims alleged under the National Environmental Policy Act, holding that they are not yet ripe for adjudication.

Counsel for Plaintiffs
Edward Berlin
Berlin, Roisman & Kessler
1712 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Dennis M. Flannery
Saunders C. Hillyer
Charles R. Halpern
Center for Law and Social Policy
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

Thomas B. Stoel Jr.
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
1710 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Victor H. Kramer
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, DC

James W. Moorman
Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
311 California Street, Suite 311
San Francisco, CA 94104

Counsel for Defendants
Edmund B. Clark
Kent Frizzell, Assistant Attorney General
Herbert Pittle
Thomas L. McKevitt
David W. Miller
William M. Cohen
Department of Justice
Washington, DC 20530

Paul F. Mickey
Robert E. Jordan III
Scott R. Schoenfeld
Quinn O'Connell
Steptoe & Johnson
1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

John E. Havelock, Attorney General, State of Alaska
William H. Allen
Richard D. Copaken
Jay L. Carlson
Juneau, AK