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LOUISIANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. YORK

Civ. A. No. 83-1885.

603 F.Supp. 518 (1984)

LOUISIANA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, INC., Rapides Wildlife Assn., Environmental Defense Fund, Inc., National Wildlife Federation, Orleans Audubon Society (J.M. Graves and Graves, Inc., Intervenors) v. Colonel Dennis J. YORK, John O. Marsh, Jr., Tensas Delta Land Company, Harold Patten, Dennis Boyte, A.L. Evans, J.D. Alexander, Westbank Planting Company, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of the Interior.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division.

September 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T.B. Tripp, New York City, Michael Osborne, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs.

Ledoux R. Provosty, Jr., Alexandria, La., for intervenors J.M. Graves & Graves, Inc.

Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, Sidney E. Cook, Shreveport, La., for Tensas Delta Land Co., Dennis Boyte, Harold A. Patten and A.L. Evans.

Charles A. Collins, Vice-President, Westbank Planting Co., Greenville, Miss., Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr. and M. Taylor Darden, New Orleans, La., for Westbank Planting Co.

Henry H. Black, Asst. Dist. Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Miss., Lawrence Moon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., James M. Spears and Elizabeth Stein, Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D.C., F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land and Natural Resources Div., Hubert M. Crean, Sp. Litigation Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for federal defendants.

EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., Senior District Judge.

In this action, plaintiffs challenge the adequacy of federal defendants' environmental review of six permit applications to clear and convert to agriculture some 5,000 acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands and the Sicily Island Levee Project, a federally funded agricultural flood protection project. The action is brought under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. Section 4332(2)(C), Section 404 of the...

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