Friends of Fiery Gizzard v. Farmers Home Administration

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Where a detailed “environmental assessment” prepared by the Farmers Home Administration concludes that a water impoundment and treatment project to be funded by the agency will have no significant adverse effects on the human environment, does the fact that people served by the project will enjoy the benefit of an improved water sup*503ply mean that the agency must prepare a full-scale environmental impact statement that would not otherwise be required? Answering this question in the negative, the district court denied an application for a preliminary injunction…