Kansas ex rel. Stephan v. Adams

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This suit for injunctive and declaratory relief seeks to prevent the termination of passenger rail service by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation on the Lone Star, Floridian and North Coast Hiawatha trains. The principal claims of the plaintiffs-appellants are that the actions of the defendants-appellees, and in particular of the Secretary of Transportation, in preparing a report and plan for curtailment of rail passenger service were in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-47 (1976) (NEPA), of the Amtrak Improvement Act…