BOB MARSHALL ALLIANCE v. LUJAN

No. CV-82-015-GF.

804 F.Supp. 1292 (1992)

BOB MARSHALL ALLIANCE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Great Falls Division.

July 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephan C. Volker, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., James A. Patten, Patten & Renz, Billings, Mont., for plaintiffs.

Carl E. Rostad, Asst. U.S. Atty., Ronald Lodders, Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, Billings, Mont., for defendants.

Michele A. Giusiana, Land & Nat'l Resources Div., General Litigation Section, Washington, D.C.

Robert Schaeffer & Perry Wallace, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Nat'l Resources Div., Washington, D.C.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HATFIELD, Chief Judge.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

The plaintiffs, Bob Marshall Alliance and the Wilderness Society, instituted the present action challenging the propriety of the federal government's issuance of several oil and gas leases in an area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest known as Deep Creek. Specifically, the plaintiffs allege the issuance of the leases violated the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ("NEPA...

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