U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR v. F.E.R.C.

No. 13-2439.

876 F.3d 360 (2015)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Boott Hydropower, Inc.; Eldred L. Field Hydroelectric Facility Trust, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

February 12, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Lundman , with whom Andrew C. Mergen , U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Tittler and Jason Waanders , Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, were on brief, for petitioner.

Carol J. Banta , with whom Robert M. Kennedy, Jr. , David L. Morenoff , Acting General Counsel, and Robert H. Solomon , Solicitor, were on brief, for respondent.

Richard M. Lorenzo , with whom Loeb & Loeb, LLP, New York, NY, and Megan Beauregard , Associate General Counsel, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Enel Green Power North America, Inc., was on brief, for intervenors.

Wendy Jacobs and Aladdine Joroff , Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School, on brief in support of petitioner, as amici curiae of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States and Preservation Mass Inc.

Vincent C. Manzi, Jr. and Manzi Bonanno & Bowers, on brief in support of respondent, as amici curiae of the Lowell Motor Boat Club and The Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program.

Peter C.L. Roth , Senior Assistant Attorney General, N.H. Attorney General's Office, Environmental Protection Bureau, and Joseph A. Foster , Attorney General, on brief in support of respondent, as amicus curiae of the State of New Hampshire Fish & Game Department.

Before Torruella, Howard, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


The United States Department of the Interior ("Interior") petitions this Court to review two orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") which granted Boott Hydropower, Inc. and the Eldred L. Field Hydroelectric Facility Trust (collectively, "Boott") an amendment to their license for the Lowell Hydroelectric...

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