ELR Citation: ELR 20761
No(s). 78-1757 (D.C. Cir. Nov 9, 1979)

The court affirms a lower court's ruling that the Secretary of the Interior has no discretion to reject on environmental grounds applications for preference right coal mining leases by prospecting permittees who have fulfilled the requirements of §201(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Section ...