PEOPLE OF VILLAGE OF GAMBELL v. CLARK

Nos. 83-3735X, 83-3781.

746 F.2d 572 (1984)

The PEOPLE OF the VILLAGE OF GAMBELL, an Alaskan Native IRA Association, and the People of the Village of Stebbins, an Alaskan Native IRA Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William CLARK, Secretary of the Interior and the United States Department of Interior, Defendants-Appellees and Arco Alaska, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Cooper, Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

David C. Shilton, Dept. of Justice, Brice M. Clagett, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWNING, Chief Judge, HUG, Circuit Judge, and REED, District Judge.


BROWNING, Chief Judge:

The appellee Secretary of Interior offered to sell leases for about 2.4 million acres of land in the Norton Sound Basin off the western shore of Alaska for oil and gas exploration under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. §§ 1331-1356. Appellee oil companies submitted bids for these leases. Appellants, the People of the Village of Gambell and the People of the Village of Stebbins (Alaska Native Indian Reorganization Act...

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