Legal Opinion
Basel Action Network v. Maritime Administration
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 2, 2005No. CIV.A. 03-2000(RMC)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COLLYER, District Judge.
The Maritime Administration (“MAR-AD”) must dispose of decommissioned mil itary vessels that constitute the Non-retention ships in the National Defense Reserve Fleet (“NDRF”). Congress requires that this disposal be completed by the end of fiscal year 2006. Approximately seventy (70) of these aging hulks are moored at the James River Reserve Fleet (“JRRF”) in Virginia. When MARAD proposed to conduct tandem tows to move 13 of these ships to a shipbreaker in Teesside, United Kingdom in the fall of 2003, plaintiffs Basel Action Network (“BAN”) and The…
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