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PEOPLE OF VILLAGE OF GAMBELL v. HODEL

Nos. 83-3735, 83-3781 and 85-3877.

869 F.2d 1273 (1989)

The PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF GAMBELL, an Alaskan Native IRA Association, and the People of the Village of Stebbins, an Alaskan Native IRA Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald P. HODEL, Secretary of the Interior, and the United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, and Arco Alaska, Inc.; Exxon Corporation; Mobil Oil Corporation; Shell Oil Company; Texaco, Inc.; and Union Oil Company of California, Applicants-for-Intervention as Defendants-Appellees. The PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE OF GAMBELL, an Alaskan Native IRA Association, and Nunam Kitlutsisti, a Native Intertribal Organization, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald P. HODEL, Secretary of the Interior, and the United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Amoco Production Company; Arco Alaska, Inc.; Exxon Corporation; Shell Western E & P, Inc.; Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company; Texaco, Inc.; and Union Oil Company of California, Applicants for Intervention as Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted January 15, 1988.

Decided March 9, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Cooper and Carol H. Daniel, Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Laura E. Frossard, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

E. Edward Bruce, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for applicants-for-intervention-as defendants-appellees.

Before WALLACE, CANBY and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.

BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

BACKGROUND

In 1983, appellee Secretary of the Interior ("Secretary") began leasing 2.4 million acres of submerged land off the western shore of Alaska. The leases were for purposes of oil and gas exploration pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ("OCSLA"), ch. 345, 67 Stat. 462 (1953) (codified as amended at 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq.). Appellee oil companies submitted bids for these leases.

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