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SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL v. WATSON

No. J81-12 Civil.

526 F.Supp. 202 (1981)

SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff, v. James WATSON, Forest Supervisor, United States Forest Service, John Sandor, Regional Forester, United States Department of Agriculture, Max R. Peterson, Chief, United States Forest Service, John B. Crowell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture, Defendants, and Pacific Coast Molybdenum Company and United States Borax and Chemical Corporation, Intervenors-Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Alaska.

November 13, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Thomas, Anchorage, Alaska, Clyde O. Martz, Charles L. Kaiser, Davis, Graham & Stubbs, Denver, Colo., for intervenors-defendants.

Durwood J. Zaelke, and Michael R. Sherwood, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Juneau, Alaska, for plaintiff.

Cynthia L. Pickering, Atty., Land and Natural Resources Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Sue Ellen Tatter, Asst. U. S. Atty., Michael Spaan, U. S. Atty., Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JAMES VON DER HEYDT, Chief Judge.

THIS CAUSE comes before the court on review of defendants' approval of certain mining activities within the Misty Fjords National Monument. The court's jurisdiction arises under the laws of the United States. 28 U.S.C. § 1331(a).

I. BACKGROUND

In 1974, U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation (U.S. Borax) conducted a geochemical exploration program within the Tongass National Forest...

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