Legal Opinion
Citizens Coal Council v. Norton
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 28, 2002No. CIV.A. 00-0274JRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
ROBERTSON, District Judge.
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), 30 U.S.C. §§ 1201 et seq., prohibits “surface coal mining operations” in national parks and other protected areas. Id. § 1272(e). This case, the latest chapter in fifteen years of litigation over the definition of “surface coal mining operations,” presents the question whether § 1272(e) also prohibits subsidence and underground mining activities that may cause subsidence in those same parks and protected areas. The plaintiff organizations, whose members use parks and other protected areas,…
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