High Country Citizens' Alliance v. Norton

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “major federal action” includes adoption of formal plans, programs, or agency decisions allocating agency resources”
• finding that agreements by federal agency were final agency actions because they “would result in a permanent limit on the use of river water for the canyon” (emphasis added)
• stating that although a permanent relinquishment of a water right is a major federal action, year-to-year enforcement decisions or “whether or not to place a call on senior water rights may be a discretionary matter best left to” federal agencies
• listing the plaintiff’s arguments as challenging the federal defendants’ actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).