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D. C. FEDERATION OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS v. VOLPE

Nos. 24838, 24843.

459 F.2d 1231 (1972)

D. C. FEDERATION OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS et al., Appellants v. John A. VOLPE, Secretary of Transportation, et al. D. C. FEDERATION OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS et al. v. John A. VOLPE, Secretary of Transportation, Appellant The District of Columbia, et al., Walter J. Hickel, Secretary of Interior, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1971.

Dissenting Opinion Filed November 4, 1971.

Supplemental Opinion and Denial of Rehearing March 2, 1972.

Certiorari Denied March 27, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Roberts B. Owen and Gerald P. Norton, Washington, D. C., for appellants in No. 24,838 and appellees in No. 24,843.

Mr. Thomas L. McKevitt, Atty., Department of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. Shiro Kashiwa, Messrs. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., Joseph M. Hannon, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Department of Justice, were on the brief, for federal appellees in No. 24,838 and federal appellants in No. 24,843.

Mr. John R. Hess, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. C. Francis Murphy, Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Assistant Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for D. C. appellees in No. 24,838 and D. C. appellants in No. 24,843.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, FAHY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

Certiorari Denied March 27, 1972. See 92 S.Ct. 1290.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

This appeal injects us back into the midst of a long and sometimes acrimonious imbroglio over the proposed construction of a bridge across the Potomac River from Virginia into the District of Columbia. In an earlier appeal we held that the so-called Three Sisters Bridge could not be built except in compliance with the hearing, environmental protection, safety, and other provisions of...

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