TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA v. STATE, DNR

No. S-4591.

851 P.2d 1340 (1993)

TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, The Sierra Club, The National Parks and Conservation Association, and The Wilderness Society, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES; State of Alaska Office of Management and Budget, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Granted in Part and Opinion Amended April 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall M. Weiner, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, for appellants.

Douglas S. Parkinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees.

Carl J.D. Bauman, Clyde E. Sniffen, Jr., Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Anchorage, for amici curiae, ARCO Alaska, Inc., BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., Chevron U.S.A., Inc., and Phillips Petroleum Co.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

INTRODUCTION

The appellants in this administrative appeal are five environmental groups ("Trustees"). Trustees sued the State challenging the State's sale of oil and gas leases in Camden Bay, Alaska ("Sale 50"). The State's Department of Natural Resources ("DNR") determined that Sale 50 is consistent with the Alaska Coastal Management Program ("ACMP"), AS 46.40.010-210. Trustees alleged that DNR's consistency determination...

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