CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AREA GROWTH v. ADAMS

Civ. A. No. 79-61.

477 F.Supp. 994 (1979)

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE AREA GROWTH (CRAG), Plaintiff, and the State of Vermont, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Brock ADAMS, Secretary of Transportation, Langhorne M. Bond, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Gerald D. Curtin, Chief, Airports Division, Regional Office of the Federal Aviation Administration, Robert Bergland, Secretary of Agriculture, Gordon Cavanaugh, Administrator, Farmers' Home Administration, Brian Burns, State Director of the Farmers' Home Administration for New Hampshire and Vermont, Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce, Robert Hall, Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, John E. Corrigan, Regional Director of the Economic Development Administration, the City of Lebanon, New Hampshire, Allen Perkins, Jr., in his capacity as Lebanon City Manager, the Lebanon Regional Airport Authority, Michael Donovan, in his capacity as Lebanon Regional Airport Manager, Defendants, and the State of New Hampshire, New England Legal Foundation, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

August 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Neill, Backus, Spielman by Robert A. Backus, Manchester, N. H., Peter R. Teachout, South Royalton, Vt., for plaintiff.

M. Jerome Diamond, Atty. Gen., William E. Griffin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atty. General's Office, State of Vermont, Montpelier, Vt., for State of Vermont, plaintiff-intervenor.

Brown & Nixon by Stanley M. Brown, Manchester, N. H., R. Peter DeCato, City Atty., Lebanon, N. H., for Lebanon defendants.

William H. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., Concord, N. H., for Federal defendants.

Robert R. Ruddock, Boston, Mass., Boston, Mass., for defendant intervenor New England Legal Foundation.

Steven J. McAuliffe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Concord, N. H., for defendant-intervenor State of New Hampshire.


OPINION

ZOBEL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are a nonprofit environmentalist corporation, consisting of New Hampshire and Vermont residents, and the State of Vermont. They seek injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging that construction at and near Lebanon (New Hampshire) Regional Airport is being undertaken by the defendants in violation of federal law. Defendants are various municipal, state and federal agencies and officials. While the complaint states...

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