SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. ALEXANDER

Civ. A. No. 76-2167.

457 F.Supp. 118 (1978)

SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, Georgia Wildlife Federation, National Wildlife Federation, Atlanta Audubon Society, Friends of the Savannah River, Georgia Canoeing Association, Inc., League of Women Voters of Georgia, League of Women Voters of South Carolina, Sierra Club, South Carolina Environmental Coalition and Trout Unlimited, Plaintiffs, v. Clifford ALEXANDER, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Army, LTG John W. Morris, in his official capacity as Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, Col. Frank-Walter, in his official capacity as District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, Douglas Costle, in his official capacity as Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, and Cecil Andrus, in his official capacity as Secretary, Department of Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Greenville Division.

July 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. Snyder, Jr., Walhalla, S. C., G. Philip Nowak, Clifford D. Stromberg, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs; Oliver A. Houck, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Geoffrey A. Mueller, Fred R. Disheroon, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. D. McCoy, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Greenville, S. C., for defendants.


CHAPMAN, District Judge.

This action is brought by various environmental groups against five government officials, in their official capacities,1 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in an effort to stop the construction and potential operation of the Richard B. Russell Dam and the continued operation of the Hartwell and Clark Hill Dams, all of which are located on the Savannah River which...

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