NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. v. JAMISON

Civ. A. No. 82-2763.

815 F.Supp. 454 (1992)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Delos Cy JAMISON, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Biddle, Washington, DC, for Nat. Coal Ass'n, intervenor. Steven P. Quarles, Crowell and Moring, Washington, DC, for State of Wyo., intervenor.

Eugene D. Gulland, Coving and Burling, Washington, DC, for Shell Oil Co., intervenor.

Glenn P. Sugameli, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC, for plaintiff National Wildlife Federation.

Melinda Taylor, National Audubon Soc., Washington, DC, for plaintiff Nat. Audubon Soc.

Johanna H. Wald, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., William S. Curtiss, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BRYANT, Senior District Judge.

Background

The sale and mining of federal coal implicate a large number of overlapping statutory mandates.1 Congress has delegated broad authority to the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations in keeping with those mandates.2

Under Department of the Interior regulations, the process by which federal coal lands...

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