FRIENDS OF FIERY GIZZARD v. FARMERS HOME ADMIN.

No. 94-6327.

61 F.3d 501 (1995)

FRIENDS OF FIERY GIZZARD; Sierra Club; Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association; and Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION; David Seivers, State Director of Farmers Home Administration; Town of Tracy City; and Charles Fults, Mayor of Tracy City, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Edward Ramage (argued and briefed), Farris, Warfield & Kanaday, Nashville, TN, for Friends of Fiery Gizzard, Sierra Club, Tennessee Scenic Rivers Assoc., Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning.

Michael L. Roden, Asst. U.S. Atty. (briefed), Nashville, TN, John M. Ebersole (argued), U.S. Dist. Attorney's Office, Office of Gen. Counsel, Atlanta, GA, for Farmers Home Admin.

Michael L. Roden, Asst. U.S. Atty., Nashville, TN, for David Seivers.

Bennett L. Ross (argued and briefed), Jessalyn Hershinger, Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, TN, for Town of Tracy City and Charles Fults.

Before: JONES, NELSON, and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Where a detailed "environmental assessment" prepared by the Farmers Home Administration concludes that a water impoundment and treatment project to be funded by the agency will have no significant adverse effects on the human environment, does the fact that people served by the project will enjoy the benefit of an improved water supply mean that the agency must prepare a full-scale environmental...

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