ELR Citation: ELR 20409
No(s). s. C-81-0090W et al (D. Utah Dec 28, 1982)

In three consolidated cases, the court upholds, against motions for summary judgment, the Secretary of the Interior's surface coal mining unsuitability designation of federal land, pursuant to §522 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). First, the court holds that §526 of SMCRA...