Judge Directs Army Corps To Provide Information On Remand Ruling For DAPL

Mealey's (May 9, 2019, 12:17 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must provide additional documentation for its decision on remand that the risk of an oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is sufficiently low so as to not require an environmental impact statement (EIS), a District of Columbia federal judge ruled May 8 in partly granting four Indian tribes’ motion to complete the administrative record (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 16-1534, D. D.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77341)....