Essex County Preservation Association on Behalf of Itself and Its Members v. Bruce Campbell, as Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Works

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• stating that a federal agency <br>may even allow the state agency to prepare the EIS itself so long <br>as the federal agency furnishes guidance, participates in the <br>preparation, and independently evaluates the statement prior to its <br>adoption
• rejecting the district court’s negative answer to the question of whether “part of the task of formulating the EIS-cpuld be carried out by a consulting firm otherwise involved in designing the ... project”
• “to get all the cards on the table prior to ‘any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources’ ”
• supplemental EIS designed to insure awareness of environmental consequences of agency action
• supplemental EIS needed due to Governor’s moratorium on highway construction

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