TONGASS CONSERVATION SOC. v. CHENEY

No. 90-5106.

924 F.2d 1137 (1991)

TONGASS CONSERVATION SOCIETY, et al. v. Richard B. CHENEY in his Official Capacity as Secretary of Defense of the United States, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Lee Rogers, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Jonathan B. Wiener, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Richard B. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Carol Williams and Ellen J. Durkee, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WALD, RUTH BADER GINSBURG and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Tongass Conservation Society and other citizen groups (in this opinion, collectively called "the Society") contest under the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq., the adequacy of an Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") that the Navy prepared for the Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility ("SEAFAC"), the...

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