VILLAGE OF FALSE PASS v. WATT

No. A 83-176 Civ.

565 F.Supp. 1123 (1983)

VILLAGE OF FALSE PASS; Village of Nelson Lagoon; Aleutians East Coastal Resource Service Area Board; Bering Sea Fishermen's Association; United Fishermen of Alaska; Jack U. Williams; Trustees for Alaska; Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.; Friends of the Earth; National Audubon Society; Alaska Center for the Environment, Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior; the United States Department of the Interior; John V. Byrne, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Defendants, Amoco Production Company, Arco Alaska, Inc., Exxon Corporation, Gulf Oil Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Murphy Oil Corporation, Shell Oil Company, Texaco Inc., and Union Oil Company of California, Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

May 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Smith, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Sarah Chasis, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Michael W. Reed/James M. Spears, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., Cynthia Christianson/Bruce M. Landon, Attys., Dept. of Justice Land & Natural Resources Div., United States Attorney's Office, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants.

Carl J.D. Bauman, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell, & Brundin, Anchorage, Alaska, E. Edward Bruce, John T. Smith & Bobby Burchfield, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for intervenors.


OPINION

FITZGERALD, District Judge.

In July of 1982, Secretary of the Interior James Watt approved a final five year plan for opening vast areas of the outer continental shelf to oil and gas leasing, exploration and development. The present sale, Lease Sale No. 70, proposes to lease 479 tracts in the St. George Basin of Alaska's Bering Sea. Like almost every lease sale that the department has undertaken, this sale has been met with a formidable court challenge...

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