Snowbank Enterprises, Inc. v. United States

OPINION

YOCK, Judge.

This case arises under section 5(a) of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978 (BWCAW Act), Pub.L. No. 95-495, 92 Stat. 1649, which provides that owners of resorts located on land riparian to certain lakes in Minnesota may require the United States Government to purchase their properties. The plaintiff is the owner of a resort qualified for purchase by the Government. On October 27, 1978, the plaintiff properly notified the United States Forest Service that it wished to invoke the buy-out provision of the BWCAW Act. Thereafter, the Forest Service commissioned…