NATIONAL MINING ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Ryan ZINKE, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; George E. Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; United States Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Land Management; Michael Nedd, acting director, Bureau of Land Management; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees,
Grand Canyon Trust; Sierra Club; National Parks Conservation Association; Center for Biological Diversity; Havasupai Tribe, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
Arizona Utah Local Economic Coalition, on behalf of member the Board of Supervisors, Mohave County, Arizona; Metamin Enterprises USA, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; George E. Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; United States Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Land Management; Michael Nedd, acting director, Bureau of Land Management; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees,
Grand Canyon Trust; Sierra Club; National Parks Conservation Association; Center for Biological Diversity; Havasupai Tribe, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
American Exploration & Mining Association, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; George E. Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; United States Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Land Management; Michael Nedd, acting director, Bureau of Land Management; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees,
Grand Canyon Trust; Sierra Club; National Parks Conservation Association; Center for Biological Diversity; Havasupai Tribe, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
Gregory Yount, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; George E. Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; United States Department of Agriculture; Bureau of Land Management; Michael Nedd, acting director, Bureau of Land Management; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees,
Grand Canyon Trust; Sierra Club, National Parks Conservation Association; Center for Biological Diversity; Havasupai Tribe, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
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Filed December 12, 2017.
Argued and Submitted December 15, 2016. San Francisco, California.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert Timothy McCrum (argued), Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant National Mining Association.
Jeffrey Wilson McCoy (argued) and Steven J. Lechner , Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellant American Exploration & Mining Association.
Edward B. Zukoski (argued), Earthjustice Denver, Colorado; Roger Flynn , Western Mining Action Project, Lyons, Colorado; Aaron M. Paul , Grand Canyon Trust, Denver, Colorado; for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
Heather Whiteman Runs Him and Matthew L. Campbell , Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado, for Amici Curiae Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Hualapai Tribe of the Hualapai Reservation, Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, Morning Star Institute, and National Congress of American Indians.
Katherine Belzowski , Attorney; Ethel B. Branch , Attorney General; Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Window Rock, Arizona; for Amicus Curiae Navajo Nation.
Before: Marsha S. Berzon and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block, District Judge.
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
We consider challenges to the decision of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw from new uranium mining claims, for up to twenty years, over one million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park. Determining the appropriate balance between safeguarding an iconic American natural wonder and permitting...
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