TEXACO PRODUCING, INC. v. HODEL

No. 85-2338.

840 F.2d 776 (1988)

TEXACO PRODUCING, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald P. HODEL, Secretary of the Interior, Defendant-Appellee, State of Wyoming; Ed Herschler, Governor of the State of Wyoming; Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning, a Wyoming Corporation; Bar T Five Outfitters, a Wyoming Corporation; Paul G. Gilroy; Pete Cameron; Louise Murie MacLeod; James R. Little, M.D.; H.L. Jensen; Leslie Peterson; Harold Turner; the Sierra Club, a nonprofit corporation; and the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit corporation, Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 11, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marilyn S. Kite, Holland & Hart, Cheyenne, Wyo. (Jerome C. Muys, John F. Shepherd, Holland & Hart, Washington, D.C., and John A. Ramsey, Texaco Producing, Inc., Denver, Colo., with her on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert L. Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Richard A. Stacy, U.S. Atty., Cheyenne, Wyo., Dirk D. Snel, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Gina Guy, Regional Sol., Dept. of the Interior, Denver, Colo., with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Karin P. Sheldon, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Denver, Colo. (William S. Curtiss, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, Cal., with her on the brief), for intervenors-appellees The Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society.

Jennifer Hager, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Wyo., (A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., Wyoming, and Steven R. Shanahan, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Wyo., with her on the brief), for intervenors-appellees State of Wyo., and Governor Ed Herschler.

Henry C. Phibbs II, Phibbs & Resor, P.C., Jackson, Wyo., and Robert P. Schuster, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson, Wyo., for intervenor-appellee Jackson Hole Alliance For Responsible Planning.

Before SEYMOUR, ANDERSON and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Texaco Producing, Inc. (Texaco), a successor in interest to Getty Oil Company (Getty), appeals the judgment of the district court upholding a decision by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA). The IBLA decision vacated approval of Getty's application for a permit to drill an exploratory oil and gas well on the Bear Thrust unit located in the Teton National Forest. The IBLA ruled that an environmental impact statement...

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