Legal Opinion
National Wildlife Federation v. Appalachian Regional Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 19, 1981No. 79-2349PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKEY, Circuit Judge:
The major issue presented on this appeal is whether the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) requires a programmatic environmental impact statement for an ongoing, but mostly completed, federally assisted highway development project. The highways in question were conceived in 1965, well before the passage of NEPA, and are now in place, under construction, or planned throughout the thirteen states constituting Appalachia. Site-specific environmental impact statements, on the other hand, have been, or are being prepared now for about 80 percent of these…
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