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· 10/6/1981

Federal Case

Citations

  • 668 F.2d 1290
  • 12 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20001
  • 215 U.S. App. D.C. 258
  • 16 ERC (BNA) 1561
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 17089

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that “consideration of environmental damage” may not be “postponed or foregone” to a later program stage
  • where agency has not made good faith effort to perform the statutory mandate, but rather, asserts it is impossible or impracticable to perform inquiry explicitly required by statute, the “agency’s burden of justification is especially heavy”

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