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KUNAKNANA v. CLARK

Nos. 83-4325, 84-3623.

742 F.2d 1145 (1984)

Sarah KUNAKNANA and Jean Numnik, Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. William CLARK, Secretary of the Interior, and the United States Department of the Interior, Defendants/Appellees, and Amoco Production Company; Arco Alaska, Inc.; Getty Oil Company; Shell Oil Company; and Texaco, Inc., Intervenor-Defendants/Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1984.

Opinion Filed September 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Cooper, James Bamberger, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

G. Thomas Koester, Sarah E. McCracken, Asst. Attys. Gen., Anchorage, Alaska, for amicus curiae State of Alaska.

Sanford Sagalkin, Anchorage, Alaska, for amicus curiae North Slope Borough.

Fred R. Disheroon, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Carl J.D. Bauman, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, Alaska, for intervenor.

Before ANDERSON, SKOPIL and POOLE, Circuit Judges.

J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Sarah Kunaknana and Jean Numnik, two Inupiat Eskimos, appeal a district court judgment denying their challenge to certain oil and gas lease sales by the Bureau of Land Management within the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve. We affirm.

I. OVERVIEW

This appeal concerns oil and gas leasing on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), a national petroleum reserve located on the North Slope in Alaska and encompassing...

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