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NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. LUJAN

Civ. A. Nos. 87-1051, 87-1814 and 88-2788.

733 F.Supp. 419 (1990)

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr., et al., Defendants, and National Coal Association, et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

February 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Thomas Galloway, Galloway & Greenberg, Glenn P. Sugameli, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Kentucky Resources Council, Frankfort, Ky., for plaintiffs.

Lisa K. Hemmer, Alfred T. Ghiorzi and Daria J. Zane, Dept. of Justice, Land and Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for defendants.

John A. Macleod, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for defendants-intervenors.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FLANNERY, District Judge.

In this matter, the court is again called upon to decide challenges to regulations implementing the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ("SMCRA" or "the Act"), 30 U.S.C.A. 1201 et seq. The Act seeks to protect society and the environment from the harmful effects of surface coal mining, sometimes known as "strip mining," as well as from surface damage caused by underground coal mining. In...

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