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PEABODY COAL CO. v. WATT

Civ. A. Nos. 81-645, 81-693, 81-2875 and 81-708.

553 F.Supp. 1201 (1982)

PEABODY COAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. James WATT, Secretary of Interior, Defendant. NATIONAL COAL ASSOCIATION and American Mining Congress, Plaintiffs, v. James WATT, Secretary of Interior, Defendant. NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, et al., Defendants. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF MINES & MINERALS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 3, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warner W. Gardner, John A. Macleod, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Alfred T. Ghiorzi and Larry Martin Corcoran, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FLANNERY, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on cross-motions for summary judgment by plaintiffs Peabody Coal Company, American Mining Congress, National Coal Company, and defendant James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, and defendant-intervenor National Wildlife Federation.1 Plaintiffs seek to have this court find that regulations for surface coal mining on prime farmlands promulgated on January...

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