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COM. OF KY. EX REL. BESHEAR v. ALEXANDER

Nos. 80-3452, 80-3503, 80-3610.

655 F.2d 714 (1981)

The COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, ex rel. Steven L. BESHEAR; Jefferson County, Kentucky; and Riverfields, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Clifford L. ALEXANDER, Jr.; Lieutenant General John W. Morris, Chief of Engineers, and Colonel Thomas Nack, Louisville, District Engineer, Defendants, Cross-Appellees, and Indiana Port Commission, Intervening Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee. The COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, ex rel. Steven L. BESHEAR; Jefferson County, Kentucky; and Riverfields, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Clifford L. ALEXANDER, Jr.; Lieutenant General John W. Morris, Chief of Engineers, and Colonel Thomas Nack, Louisville, District Engineer, Defendants-Appellants, and Indiana Port Commission, Intervening Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Smith, U. S. Atty., Hancy Jones, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., James W. Moorman, Jacoques B. Gelin, Robert D. Clark, Peter Steenland, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Appellate Section, Washington, D. C., for defendants, cross-appellees.

Gerald Kirven, Louisville, Ky., Gary H. Baise, A. James Barnes, Beveridge, Fairbanks & Diamond, Carl Eardley, Washington, D. C., Theodore Sendak, Atty. Gen., David C. Weigel, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind., for intervening defendant-appellant, cross-appellee.

Steven L. Beshear, Atty. Gen. of Ky., David K. Martin, Dale D. Brodkey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Frankfort, Ky., Lively M. Wilson, Stites, McElwain & Fowler, James D. Moyer, Louisville, Ky., Thomas L. Anderson, Max N. Edwards of Collier, Shannon, Rill, Edwards & Scott, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants and plaintiffs-appellees.

John L. Smith, U. S. Atty., Hancy Jones, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louisville, Ky., for defendants-appellants.

Before KEITH, BROWN and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges.

CORNELIA G. KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

The Indiana Port Commission (IPC) appeals the judgment of the District Court which held inadequate the consideration of alternate sites in an environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers. Preparation and consideration of such an EIS was required prior to granting a permit to the Port Commission to build a port and industrial complex along the Ohio River at Six Mile Island near Jeffersonville, Indiana...

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