City of Davis, a Municipal Corporation v. William T. Coleman, Jr., Secretary of Transportation

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• requiring USDOT to consider environmental, economic, and social effects of future urban development as indirect impacts of contemplated construction of a new interstate freeway interchange
• relying on the plaintiff’s allegations that development facilitated by a new freeway interchange “may adversely affect the quality and quantity of the city water supply because of increased use and the danger of contamination by industrial wastes” (emphasis added)
• federal financial assistance of 60% Of proposed highway costs of which the viaduct section alone would exceed $14,000,000
• City was within the zone of protected interests of NEPA because it had primary responsibility for promulgation and enforcement of local environmental regulations
• where agency action might adversely affect city water supply, and would frustrate city’s policy of controlled growth, injury in fact test is satisfied
• EIS required for indirect impacts where the Solano County Development Agency had begun promoting a 150 acre “University Research Park”

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