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2000 Interior Dec. (IBLA) 309 (2000)

handle is hein.amindian/ibla2000 and id is 1 raw text is: WILLlAM E. LOVE

IBLA 97464                                             Decided January 13, 2000
Appeal from a decision of the Utah State Director, Bureau of Land Management approving for the Price Coalbed
Methane Project the preferred alternative described in the final environmental impact statement prepared for the project. UT-
060-07-1310-00.
Motion to dismiss denied; decision affirmed.
1. Administrative Procedure: Standing--Appeals: Generally-Rules of Practice: Appeals: Standing to
Appeal
A motion to dismiss an appeal of the record of decision approving a coal bed methane project for
lack of standing based on the assertion that the appellant is not adversely affected because the
decision does not approve any on-the-ground opemtions will be denied when the decision approves
a massive development on public lands with on-the-gmund consequences.
2.      Environmental Quality: Environmental Statements--National Environmental Policy Act of 1969:
Environmental Statements
A rule of mason applies when reviewing new alternatives and information regarding a proposed
action analyzed in a dmft and final EIS and considering whether a supplemental EIS is required. A
decision to approve a coalbed methane project analyzed in both a dmt EIS and a final EIS without
prepamtion of a supplemental draft EIS will be affrmed when the new alternative developed and
adopted in the final EIS responds to public comments seeking increased protection for big game
and falls qualitatively within the spectrum of alternatives discussed in the draft, and the new and
expanded information generated in the prepamtion of the final EIS does not significantly vary from
that considered in the dmft EIS in either the nature or magnitude ofthe disclosed impacts.

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