SIERRA CLUB v. WATT

Civ. No. C82-054A.

566 F.Supp. 380 (1983)

SIERRA CLUB, a non-profit California corporation; and North Cascades Conservation Council, a non-profit Washington corporation, Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, individually and as Secretary of the Department of the Interior; Russell E. Dickenson, individually and as Director, National Park Service; Robert Buford, individually and as Director, Bureau of Land Management, Defendants, and Utah Mining Association, a non-profit Utah corporation, Intervenor.

United States District Court, D. Utah, C.D.

April 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne G. Petty, Salt Lake City, Utah, H. Anthony Ruckel, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

Brent D. Ward, U.S. Atty. for Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendants.

Keith Taylor, Salt Lake City, Utah, for intervenor.


ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF DEFENDANT AND DEFENDANT INTERVENOR

ALDON J. ANDERSON, Chief Judge.

On December 21, 1981, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service published a final rulemaking at 46 Fed.Reg. 62038, providing for "oil and gas leasing and leasing of minerals other than oil and gas within five National Recreation Areas (NRA's), Glen Canyon, Lake Chelan, Ross Lake, Wiskeytown, and Lake Mead. The effect of...

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