NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. v. MORTON

Civ. A. No. 1983-73.

388 F.Supp. 829 (1974)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Strohbehn, Jr., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Washington, D. C., John Roger Beers, John E. Bryson, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Palo Alto, Cal., for plaintiffs.

William M. Cohen, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James Coda, Attorney-Advisor, U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Max Barash, Washington, D. C., Raymond M. Momboisse, Ronald A. Zumbrun, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Cal., for intervenor-defendants Pacific Legal Foundation and Public Lands Council, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND JUDGMENT

FLANNERY, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This matter is before the court on cross-motions for summary judgment by plaintiffs, federal defendants and defendants-intervenors. It presents important issues concerning the applicability of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq. (1970), to the livestock grazing permit program of the Bureau of Land management, United States Department...

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