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that the potential for significantly affecting the quality of 
the human environment by the Ft. Detrick experiments exists. 
Plaintiff suggests that such a state of affairs is all that 
must be demonstrated to the Court in order to order the defend- 
ants to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement. In Citizens 
for Reid State Park v. Laird , 336 Fed. Supp. 783, 788, the Court 
stated: 
M NEPA... require(s) all Federal 
agencies to incorporate as an 
integral part of the if planning 
process consideration of the 
environmental consequences of 
any proposed action, and where - 
ever such consideration indicates 
that the action may significantly 
affect the quality of the human 
environment to prepare and file 
a detailed impact statement. 
(Emphasis added.) 
13. Our Court of Appeals has likewise found that "major 
Federal action" is to be judged by the magnitude of the potential 
environmental consequences: 
"The introduction of 'stretch' 
jets into /Washington National 
Airport/ ... in 1968, was not 
a "major action" as that term 
is used in il02(2)(C). It 
bases this conclusion on its 
findings that the difference 
between the 727-200 (stretch 
jet) and the 727-100 (stretch 
yet's predecessor) is minimal 
insofaras "affecting the 
quality of human environment" 
is concerned. 
14. Further support is found in Izaak Walton League v. 
Schlesinger , 337 Fed. Supp. 287, where this Court, in considering 
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