The court finds that a lagoon and lot development in Ocean City created by the defendant's dredging and filling is part of the navigable waters of the United States; and on a showing that defendant violated 33 U.S.C. §403 by operating without a Corps of Engineers permit, the court grants a permanen...

In this challenge to the Corps of Engineers' Meramec Park Dam and Reservoir Project, the court denies a motion by the Meramec Basin Association to intervene as a party defendant but grants leave to file memoranda of law as amicus curiae. The court denies, without prejudice to refiling, plaintiffs' m...

The court rules that NEPA does not require an impact statement for each coal contract and approves the impact statement for TVA's program of coal procurement. The court finds that the opportunity to comment on a draft impact statement is not an administrative remedy that plaintiffs must exhaust prio...

The defendants are enjoined from issuing any new building permits until the completion of facilities for waste treatment and exportation that satisfy the water quality standards and implementation plan for the Lake Tahoe basin adopted by Nevada pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. St...

The court awards $106,000 to the tribe on an unopposed motion for recovery of attorney fees and costs in connection with successful litigation against the Secretary of the Interior. Considerations of equity favor recovery where the suit serves two avowed congressional purposes, to prevent dissipatio...

The requirements of NEPA apply to a segment of a proposed statewide highway project when the State Highway Department first seeks location approval from the Federal Highway Administration. Segmentation is desirable since to subject the overall project to the requirements of NEPA at the planning stag...

The court refuses to issue a preliminary injunction against construction of the proposed Copper River Highway in southcentral Alaska because plaintiffs failed to show that they would suffer irreparable injury if the injunction were denied. Plaintiffs' assertions that construction of the highway woul...

The California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972 applies to coastal projects commenced after February 1, 1973, but does not require builders who performed substantial construction prior to that date to apply for permits from the regional coastal commission. To hold otherwise would in effect impo...

The court affirms denial of a preliminary injunction against eviction and demolition by New York City on a site where plant expansion is planned by a private company with a loan commitment from the Economic Development Administration of the Commerce Department. EDA failed to file an impact statement...

Two transactions in which the Forest Service exchanged government land in and near Yellowstone National Park for land patented to a private company, which then conveyed its acquisition to a developer for construction of a recreational development, are reviewable by the court ans fall under the requi...