(October 20, 2017, 8:17 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should be able to back up its original finding that the risk of an oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) was sufficiently low so as to not require an environmental impact statement (EIS), so the easement allowing the pipeline to run under sacred Indian waters need not be vacated while the Army Corps conducts further studies, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled Oct. 11 (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-1534, D. D.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167569)....