NO GWEN ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY, INC. v. ALDRIDGE

No. 86-4082.

855 F.2d 1380 (1988)

NO GWEN ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY, INCORPORATED, an Oregon non-profit corporation; Lane County, Oregon, a public body of the State of Oregon; No GWEN Alliance of Butte County, California; the GWEN Project, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Edward C. ALDRIDGE, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force, U.S. Department of the Air Force, and all employees over whom he exercises authority, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1988.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing August 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph A. Bradley, and Bradley & Gordon, Eugene, Or., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. Carol Williams, Dept. of Justice, Col. Richard Lotz (appearance only), U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., Thomas C. Lee, Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, Or., for the defendants-appellees.

Before WALLACE, FLETCHER and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.


BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

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Overview

This controversy centers around the Air Force's attempt to install numerous 300 foot radio towers that will become components in the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN). The No GWEN Alliance (No GWEN) complained that the Air Force's Environmental Assessments (EA) for the project are inadequate because they fail to discuss environmental impacts of GWEN, including the impact of a nuclear exchange which might be...

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