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EDWARDSEN v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 99-71397.

268 F.3d 781 (2001)

Charles EDWARDSEN, Jr., Bill Tegoseak, Abel Akpik, Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Joseph Akpik, Mabel Kaleak, Greenpeace, Inc., Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Minerals Management Service, Respondent, and BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., State of Alaska, Intervenor-Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer B. App and Michael J. Frank, Trustees for Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, for the petitioner Greenpeace, Inc.

Nancy S. Wainwright, Anchorage, Alaska, for individual petitioners.

Mark R. Haag, U.S. Department of Justice, for the respondents.

Frederick R. Anderson, Jonathan R. Stone and David F. Williams, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-respondent.

Before: Mary M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, Thomas G. NELSON and Barry G. SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Argued and Submitted August 8, 2001 — Anchorage, Alaska.

OPINION

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:

Since 1978, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ("OCSLA"), 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq., has set forth the procedures for administrative approval of offshore oil drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf. In this case, six native Alaskans and the environmental organization Greenpeace, Inc., seek review of the...

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