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Case Note: Environmental Law - National Environmental Policy Act - Potential Environmental Effects Of Urban Unemployment Require Preparation Of An Environmental Impact Statement, Elizabeth Manning

Fordham Urban Law Journal

In this case note, Elizabeth Manning analyzes City of Rochester v. United States Postal Service, 541, F.2d 967 (2d Cir. 1976). The City of Rochester and the Genessee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board sued to enjoin the Postal Service from constructing a 12 million dollar postal facility in a Rochester suburb, in contemplation of abandoning an older smaller facility within the city itself. Plaintiffs asserted that the Postal Service's change of location was "a major Federal actio[n] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment," and that the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) required the preparation of an Environmental …