COUNTY OF BERGEN v. DOLE

Civ. A. No. 82-4065.

620 F.Supp. 1009 (1985)

The COUNTY OF BERGEN; the Borough of Franklin Lakes; the Township of Montville; the Franklin Lakes Homeowners Committee Against I-287; the New Jersey Citizens Coalition To Stop I-287; and the Passaic River Coalition, Plaintiffs, v. Elizabeth Hanford DOLE, as the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation; the United States Department of Transportation; Ray Barnhart, as the Federal Highway Administrator; John G. Bestgen, Jr., as the Regional Administrator of Region 1 of the Federal Highway Administration; John J. Kessler, Jr., as the Division Administrator of the New Jersey Division of the Federal Highway Administration; the Federal Highway Administration; James G. Watt, as the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; the United States Department of the Interior; Lee Verstandig, as the Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; Jacqueline E. Schafer, as Administrator of Region 2 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency; the United States Environmental Protection Agency; John P. Sheridan, Jr., as the Commissioner of Transportation of the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and the New Jersey Department of Transportation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

October 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Paget, New York City, for all plaintiffs.

William T. Smith, Franklin Lakes, N.J., for Franklin Lakes.

Priscilla Triolo, Hackensack, N.J., for Franklin Lakes Homeowners Committee Against I-287 and New Jersey Citizens Coalition to Stop I-287.

Valerie F. Mauceri, Asst. U.S. Atty., Newark, N.J., for U.S. Dept. of Transp., Federal Highway Admin., U.S. E.P.A., and U.S. Dept. of Interior.

Michael R. Dressler, Hackensack, N.J., Bergen County Counsel.

Lawrence K. Eismeier, Boonton, N.J., for Montville.

Alfred Porro, Lyndhurst, N.J., for Passaic River Coalition.

John J. Maiorana, Deputy Atty. Gen., Div. of Law, Trenton, N.J., for N.J. Dept. of Transp.


              TABLE OF CONTENTS
                                            PAGE
GLOSSARY .................................. 1012
  I. SCOPE OF REVIEW ...................... 1016
 II. FINDINGS OF FACT ..................... 1017
     A. Procedural History of the I-287
          Project ......................... 1017
     B. Findings of Fact as to Each of
          Plaintiffs' Claims .............. 1039
III. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW ................... 1049...

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