Ogunquit Village Corporation v. R. M. Davis, Administrator, Soil Conservation Service

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• finding that the court was \unable to fashion a [generally applicable] remedy\ for NEPA violations once the challenged project had been completed, and further stating that the responsibility for crafting such a remedy lay with Congress
• NEPA not usually applied to “projects on which construction has been completed or on which work has progressed so far that meaningful future federal decisionmaking has been foreclosed”
• “The [NEPA] process puts burdens on federal agencies; but it also demands, if it is to achieve its objective, a certain duty of attentiveness from citizens”
• despite fact that the Soil Conservation Service had filed an inadequate EIS before beginning work on the federally funded reconstruction of a sand dune, NEPA did not authorize an action seeking a new EIS or reworking of the shoddily completed project after the project was complete

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).