Hiram B. Ely v. Richard W. Velde, Associate Administrator, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Natural Resources Defense Council, Amicus Curiae

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• declining to construe predecessor provision “so broadly as unnecessarily to undercut 45 solutions adopted by Congress to preserve and protect other societal values”
• denying injunction against construction of state prison with federal funds, despite the state's failure to comply with federal environmental and historic preservation statutes
• Law Enforcement Assistance Administration involvement in and funding for a state prison amounts to major federal action
• genuine, rather than perfunctory compliance with NEPA requires agency to explicate fully its course of inquiry, its analysis, and its reasoning
• Law Enforcement Assistance Administration involvement in and funding for a state prison amounts to major federal action
• location of correctional center in a \uniquely historical and architecturally significant rural community\

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