Legal Opinion
Center for Environmental Law & Policy v. United States Bureau of Reclamation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 2011No. 10-35646PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Lake Roosevelt in eastern Washington state serves a variety of purposes, including irrigation, navigation, flood control, power generation, recreation, and fish management. We consider here a challenge by environmental groups to a proposed incremental drawdown of water from the lake. As always, our review under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq., is limited to determining whether the agency, in this case the United States Bureau of Reclamation (“Reclamation”), took a “hard look” and genuinely scrutinized the environmental…
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