Sierra Club v. Block

ELR Citation: ELR 20177
No(s). 84-K-2 (D. Colo. Nov 25, 1985)

The court holds that the Wilderness Act creates federally reserved water rights in wilderness areas, but the federal government's failure to assert those rights is not agency action unlawfully withheld under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The court first holds that plaintiff Sierra Club has...