United States Ninth Circuit

Aerial insecticide spraying conducted by the U.S. Forest Service was point source pollution requiring an National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit, and an Environmental Impact Statement inadequately analyzed the issue of pesticide drift.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2002
• Decided 11/04/2002
• Published 11/04/2002

Judges

• Before D.W. NELSON, THOMPSON and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marianne Dugan,Facaros & Dugan, Eugene, Oregon;  Lauren Regan, Eugene Oregon, Brent Foster, Portland, OR, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Cruden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Washington D.C.;  Kristine Olson, United States Attorney, Thomas C. Lee, Assistant United States Attorney, Val. J. McLam Black, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR;  Ellen J. Durkee, Paul S. Weiland, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington D.C., for the appellees.