ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., Pratt Remmel, Jr., and Mrs. Gale Eddins, Appellants,
v.
Martin R. HOFFMAN, Secretary of the Army, General Frederick B. Clarke, Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers of U. S. Army, and Cache River-Bayou DeView Improvement District, Appellees.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Intervenor-Plaintiff.
John Getson, S. L. Simpson, Anderson Wells, F. D. Munger, Owen Burton, John Connor, Donald Cain and Raymond Carloch, Intervenor-Defendants.
ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH COMMISSION, Appellant,
v.
Martin R. HOFFMAN, Secretary of the Army, General Frederick B. Clarke, Chief of Engineers, Corps of Engineers of U. S. Army, Cache River-Bayou DeView Improvement District, John Getson, S. L. Simpson, Anderson Wells, F. D. Munger, Owen Burton, John Connor, Donald Cain, and Raymond Carloch, Appellees.
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Submitted January 13, 1977.
Decided October 25, 1977.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James T. B. Tripp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York City, for Environmental Defense Fund and Ark. Game and Fish Com'n; G. William Lavender, Texarkana, Ark., on the brief.
William G. Peterson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for State of Ark.
Glen R. Goodsell, Land and Natural Resources, Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellees; G. D. Walker, Jonesboro, Ark., on brief for appellees, Cache River-Bayou DeView Improvement Dist., John Getson and other intervening landowners; Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., W. H. Dillahunty, U. S. Atty., and Walter G. Riddick, Asst. U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark.; Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Richard M. Adelman, Dist. Counsel, Corps of Engineers, Memphis, Tenn., Michael A. McCord, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on briefs, for federal appellees.
Bill Clinton, Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., and William G. Peterson, Dept. of Natural Resources, St. Paul, Minn., filed amicus brief of State of Ark. in case no. 76-1366.
John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., State of Mo., Cyril M. Hendricks, Atty., Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, Mo., Bronson C. La Follette, Atty. Gen., State of Wis., Theodore L. Priebe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., Warren R. Spannaus, Atty. Gen., State of Minn., William G. Peterson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., State of Iowa, Clifford E. Peterson, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., State of Ill., Richard W. Cosby, Asst. Atty. Gen., Springfield, Ill., filed amicus briefs for the States of Minn., Ill., Mo., Wis. and Iowa in case no. 76-1431.
Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and STUART, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
The principal question raised on this appeal is whether the final revised environmental impact statement (EIS),1 filed by the Corps of Engineers in conjunction with the Cache River-Bayou DeView Channelization Project, complies with the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq., (NEPA) and the mandate of this Court in Environmental Defense...
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