The Nation : Strip-Mining Plan Upset
Former Interior Secretary James G. Watt’s controversial 1983 decision to allow strip mining in national parks was improperly adopted and cannot be enforced, a federal judge said in Washington. U.S. District Judge Thomas Flannery said the Interior Department erred in ordering the rule into effect without allowing time for public comment. He sent the matter back to the department, now headed by Secretary Donald P. Hodel, with instructions that proper procedure be followed if the strip-mining proposal is pursued.
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