United States Second Circuit

49 USC 41716(a)-(b), which requires the Secretary of Transportation to grant slot exemptions to airlines in New York metropolitan airports if they meet statutory requirements, does not require an environmental impact report.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/12/2001
• Decided 08/21/2001
• Published 08/21/2001

Judges

• WINTER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Susan E. Amron, (Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, of counsel), New York, NY, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• F. Franklin Amanat, Assistant United States Attorney, (Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Deborah B. Zwany and Stanley N. Alpert, Assistant United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of New York, and Paul M. Geier, Assistant General Counsel for Litigation and Thomas L. Ray, Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the General Counsel, Washington DC, of counsel), Brooklyn, NY, for Respondents., Lorraine B. Halloway, Crowell & Moring L.L.P., (R. Bruce Keiner, Jr., of counsel), Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Regional Airline Association in support of Respondents., Robert E. Cohn, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Troebridge, (Alexander Van der Bellen, and W. Paul Zampol, General Attorney, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, GA, and Robert P. Silverberg, Silverberg, Goldman and Bikoff, L.L.P., Washington, DC, of counsel), Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Delta Connection Carriers in support of Respondents.