Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Andrus

MEMORANDUM

FLANNERY, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on the federal defendants’ notice of proposed deviation from this court’s Final Judgment on June 18, 1975. That judgment established a schedule pursuant to which the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of Interior was required to prepare environmental impact statements (EIS’s) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq. concerning livestock grazing on pub- lie lands in eleven western states. The plaintiffs have accurately summarized the history of this case as follows;

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