United States Ninth Circuit

In a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenge to a feasibility report and environmental impact statement prepared by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in connection with a project to deepen the Columbia River navigation channel and to propose new sites for disposal of dredged materials, a judgment rejecting the challenge is affirmed where the Corps took the requisite "hard look" at the particular environmental and economic factors at issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2006
• Decided 08/23/2006
• Published 08/23/2006

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before: B. FLETCHER, SILVERMAN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen D. Mashuda, Earthjustice, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew J. Sanders, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., Beth S. Ginsberg, Stoel Rives, LLP, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.