Sierra Club v. United States Army Corps of Engineers Federal Emergency Management Agency

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the plaintiffs NEPA claim was valid because the agency’s FONSI was “final agency action” and then briefly concluding that both standing and ripeness existed
• noting that NEPA does not “provide for judicial review of the agency actions at issue”
• holding that, for purposes of a NEPA claim under the APA, a FONSI is a final agency action permitting immediate judicial review as long as plaintiffs are able to point to an action “at least arguably triggering the agency’s obligation to prepare an impact statement”
• finding that Memorandum of Agreement that “merely identified sites that might justify building levees on HMGP-acquired properties and prescribed an interagency protocol” for certain determinations was not a final agency action
• noting that “Stafford Act does not expressly provide for private rights of action”
• noting that court has broad discretion in deciding whether to stay proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).