COUNTY OF SUFFOLK v. SECRETARY OF INTERIOR

Nos. 1187, 1258, Dockets 77-6049 and 77-6050.

562 F.2d 1368 (1977)

COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, County of Nassau, Town of Islip, Town of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead, Town of Oyster Bay, Town of Huntington, and the Board of Trustees of the Town, of Huntington and Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SECRETARY OF the INTERIOR et al., Defendants-Appellants, National Ocean Industries Association et al., and New York Gas Group, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants. The NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SECRETARY OF the INTERIOR et al., Defendants-Appellants, National Ocean Industries Association, National Supply Company, Continental Oil Company, Diamond M. Drilling Company, Digicon, Inc., Dresser Industries, Inc., Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation, Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Murphy Oil Corporation, Ocean Production Company, Transco Companies, Inc. and Zapata Corporation, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Like, Babylon, N. Y., Sp. Counsel for County of Suffolk (Patricia A. Dempsey, Atty., Richard C. Hand, Babylon, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee County of Suffolk.

William Gitelman, County Atty. of Nassau County, Mineola, N. Y. (John F. Picciano, Deputy County Atty., Mineola, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee County of Nassau.

William F. Dudine, Jr., New York City, for plaintiff-appellee Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Inc.

J. Christopher Jensen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y., John J. Zimmerman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., for the Eastern District of New York, Bernard J. Fried, Cyril Hyman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Brooklyn, N. Y., Lawrence R. Hoese, Atty., Dept. of Interior, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Federal defendants-appellants.

Jon M. Kaufman, New York City (Kommel, Rogers, Kaufman, Lorber & Shenkman, Sarah Chasis, Atty., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

E. Edward Bruce, Washington, D. C. (Mark D. Nozette, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C., Gene W. Lafitte, J. Berry St. John, Jr., Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., George A. Burrell, New York City, of counsel), for intervenor-defendants-appellants National Ocean Industries Association, et al.

Shearman & Sterling, New York City (Robert L. Clare, Jr., W. Foster Wollen, Joseph T. McLaughlin, Kenneth M. Kramer, New York City, of counsel), for amici curiae Exxon Corp., Gulf Oil Corp., Mobil Oil, Shell Oil; Robert M. Perry, Houston, Tex., of counsel for Exxon Corp.; James A. Boone, A. Paul Brandimarte, Jr., New Orleans, La., of counsel for Gulf Oil Corp.; E. M. Sutter, R. B. Shaw, New Orleans, La., of counsel for Shell Oil Corp.; Arthur Aitkens, New York City, of counsel for Mobil Oil Corp.

Baker & Botts, Washington, D. C. (Gordon Gooch, John P. Mathis, Thomas B. Hudson, Washington, D. C., Gray Castle, Gen. Counsel, John T. Rafferty, NL Industries, Inc., New York City, of counsel), for amicus curiae NL Industries, Inc.

David J. Muchow, Gen. Counsel, American Gas Association, Arlington, Va. (Kevin B. Belford, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Arlington, Va., of counsel), for amicus curiae American Gas Association.

Willcox, Pirozzolo & McCarthy, Boston, Mass. (Jack R. Pirozzolo, Richard F. McCarthy, Boston, Mass., of counsel), for amicus curiae New England Council.

Rosenman Colin Freund Lewis & Cohen, New York City (Samuel H. Lindenbaum, Martin S. Baker, Thomas J. DeZure, New York City, of counsel), for amicus curiae Association For A Better New York, Inc.

Vinson & Elkins, Washington, D. C. (Rush Moody, Jr., Michael J. Henke, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for amicus curiae The Business Roundtable.

Stanley C. Van Ness, Public Advocate of the State of New Jersey, Trenton, N. J. (Robert P. Corman, Asst. Deputy Public Advocate, Division of Public Interest Advocacy, Dept. of the Public Advocate, Trenton, N. J., of counsel), for amicus curiae Tri-County Committee.

Winer, Neuburger & Sive, New York City (David Sive, William Ginsberg, New York City, of counsel), for amici curiae Friends of the Earth, Inc., The Sierra Club and its Atlantic Chapter, The Wilderness Society, Long Island Sound Task Force, Inc., Long Island Environmental Council, Inc., Group for America's South Fork, Inc.

Drexel D. Journey, Gen. Counsel, F. P. C., Washington, D. C. (Robert W. Perdue, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Allan Abbot Tuttle, Sol., John J. Lahey, Atty., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., of counsel), for amicus curiae F. P. C.

Before MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge, SMITH, Chief Judge, and PALMIERI, District Judge.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

As our energy demands escalate, so does the running battle between the environmentalists and the exploiters of our natural resources. This appeal represents another skirmish in that confrontation. The principal issue is whether an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared by the Department of Interior for the purpose of determining whether to authorize a program for exploitation of our oil and gas resources contained sufficient information...

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