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United States: Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Opinion in Environmental Defense Fund v. Massey (Extraterritorial Application of the National Environmental Policy Act)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Judicial and Similar Proceedings
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Copyright © 1993

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* [Reproduced from the Slip Opinion provided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

[In a press release of March 15, the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that a rehearing would not be sought as the administration had decided not to challenge the Court's precise holding “that the National Environmental Policy Act applies to the National Science Foundation's activities in Antartica described in the opinion.“

[The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty appears at 30 I.L.M. 1461 (1991). Smith v. United States, decided by the United States Supreme Court on March 8, 1992, regarding application of the Federal Tort Claims Act to Antarctica, appears at 32 I.L.M. 516 (1993).]