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LOUISIANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. YORK

No. 84-4699.

761 F.2d 1044 (1985)

LOUISIANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dennis J. YORK, Colonel, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 31, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T.B. Tripp, New York City, Osborne, McComiskey & Richardson-Harp, Michael Osborne, New Orleans, La., Jerry Jackson, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, F. Drake Lee, Jr., Shreveport, La., for Tensas Delta, et al.

Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr., Stephen C. Carleton, New Orleans, La., for Westbank Planting.

F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land & Nat. Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Jacques B. Gelin, David C. Shilton, Washington, D.C., for federal defendants.

Ledoux R. Provosty, Jr., Alexandria, La., for other interested parties.

Before GOLDBERG, RUBIN, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Six environmental organizations object to the issuance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of six individual permits allowing private landowners to clear and convert to agriculture approximately 5200 acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands. They also oppose the construction of the Sicily Island Area Levee Project (the Project), a federal flood control project to abate backwater flooding in a 75,000 acre area of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, without an additional...

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