United States Ninth Circuit

Under the National Environmental Policy Act, 42 USC 4321 et seq., the National Park Service must prepare an Environmental Impact Statement when its Environmental Assessment states it has insufficient data on the environmental effects of increased access to park areas or the effectiveness of mitigation measures.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/31/2000
• Decided 02/23/2001
• Published 02/23/2001

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Catherine E. Stetson,Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sean H. Donahue, United States Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., Cynthia Pickering Christianson, Anchorage, Alaska, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.