OLMSTED CITIZENS FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY v. U.S.

No. 85-5141.

793 F.2d 201 (1986)

OLMSTED CITIZENS FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY, a nonprofit Minnesota Corporation; Lowell Fredin and Ralph Lindeen, individually, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Bureau of Prisons, a bureau of the United States Department of Justice; Norman A. Carlson, Director of the Bureau of Prisons, individually and in his official capacity; Loy S. Hays, Chief, Office of Facilities Development and Operations, Bureau of Prisons, individually and in his official capacity, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 9, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 10, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abdalian, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.

Claire McGuire, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, and GUNN, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 10, 1986.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Olmsted Citizens for a Better Community and the individual plaintiffs appeal the grant of summary judgment against them on their claims under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). See 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4347 (1982). The district court1 held that the government was not required to file an environmental impact statement in connection...

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