Legal Opinion
Warm Springs Dam Task Force v. Lieutenant General William C. Gribble, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1980No. 77-2301PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Per curiam
This case involves the adequacy of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), as supplemented, prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of Warm Springs Dam in Northern California. The central issue is whether the Corps was required to supplement its EIS further when it became aware of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study indicating that the Maacama Fault, which at its closest point is six miles from the dam, might be capable of generating an earthquake of greater magnitude than the dam was designed to withstand.
The case is on appeal from the district court’s denial of a…
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