ELR Citation: ELR 20179
No(s). s. 79-2448, -2458 (D.D.C. Aug 15, 1980)

The court rules that owners of alluvial valley floor (AVF) land on which strip mining is prohibited must be offered federal coal-bering land in exchange, and it remands a number of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) regulations for determining the unsuitability of lands for surface coal mining ...