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Conservation Council of N.C. v. Costanzo

The court orders the Corps of Engineers to prepare a full scale NEPA impact statement with respect to its granting a permit under §10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 for marina construction on a privately-owned island on the North Carolina coast. It is inescapable that the marina permit will ...

Citizens for Food & Progress v. Musgrove

This action for declaratory and injunctive relief seeks to halt planning and development of the West Georgia Limited Access Highway (WGLAH) and Interstate 185 pending compliance with the assertedly applicable requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and §4(f) of the Department of Trans...

Canal Auth. of Fla. v. Callaway

The court summarily affirms a judgment denying an injunction against lowering the level of the Rodman Pool, a part of the ill-fated Cross-Florida Barge Canal, but remands the case to the trial court for the continued exercise of its equitable discretion. For earlier related opinions of the district ...

Cummington Preservation Comm. v. Federal Aviation Admin.

Although not entirely satisfactory, the Federal Aviation Administration's final environmental impact statement (EIS) for construction of a radar facility and paved access road on the summit of Bryant Mountain in Cummington, Massachusetts, meets the requirements of NEPA. Since it was not clearly erro...

Buckeye Power, Inc. v. EPA

For lack of ripeness, the court of appeals dismisses petitions from a number of Ohio steel mills and power companies for review of the EPA Administrator's approval of Ohio's Clean Air Act implementation plan. Federal approval of the plan was subject to important exceptions; disputes regarding the ac...

Crosley Bldg. Corp. v. Sampson

NEPA does not require the General Services Administration to file an impact statement in conjunction with its submission to the House and Senate Public Works Committees of a prospectus for the lease of office building space in Jackson, Mississippi. Plaintiffs, owners of two office buildings in Jacks...

District of Columbia v. Train

In cases where the EPA Administrator disapproves the transportation control portions of a state's air quality implementation plan, the Clean Air Act does not empower him to order the state to enact EPA-promulgated statutes and regulations for transportation control, or to bring federal enforcement a...

Arkansas Community Org. for Reform Now v. Brinegar

A citizens group and some of its members brought this action challenging a proposed interstate highway connector in Little Rock, Arkansas, under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. §§4321 et seq., ELR 41009, and the Department of Transportation parkland provisions, 49 U.S.C. §1653(f)...

Country Club Bank of Kansas City v. Smith

In an action to review the Comptroller of the Currency's grant of a bank charter without first preparing an environmental impact statement, the court rules that defendant's approval of the charter application must be postponed for failure to comply with the procedural requirements of the National En...

Concerned About Trident v. Schlesinger

Property owners and environmental groups brought this NEPA action to challenge the Navy Department's decision to locate a Trident Submarine support base on Puget Sound at Bangor, Washington. Plaintiffs' aesthetic, conservational and recreational interests in the environment of the Bangor area give t...