risk assessment studies are to be conducted. 
(d) If what the Government proposes to do in this case is proper, 
there would have been no need to consider the Alaskan environment in an 
EIS on the Alaskan Pipeline; and any EIS on super highways (without 
regard to where located) would satisfy the requirements of an EIS relating 
to Route 66 in the crowded Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. 
If this disregard of the law is what defendants intended when they signed 
the stipulation, it was not entered into in good faith on their part, 
and they should not be released from their commitment to this Court. 
The Guidelines also place upon the agencies involved "a 
responsibility to develop procedures to insure the fullest practicable 
provision of timely public information and understanding of Federal 
plans and programs with environmental impact in order to obtain the 
views of interested parties. These procedures shall include, whenever 
appropriate, provisions for public hearings, and shall provide the public 
with relevant information. ... " (Guidelines, Section 309 10(e)) The 
sequence of events involving the risk assessment studies is that 
the Guidelines, and the draft EIS on the Guidelines, were both 
promulgated before the public was made aware of the risk assessment 
studies to be conducted at Ft. Detrick, and no opportunity to comment 
upon the proposed Environmental Impact Statement as it might be 
related to the risk assessment studies was afforded to the public. 
Comments on the Environmental Impact Statement were required 
to be submitted before November 1, 19 76, and notice to the public 
of the proposed risk assessment studies at Ft. Detrick was not 
given until early 1977. 
FERDINAND J. MACK 
ATTORNEY AT LAW 
SUITE 1O0 
OLD TOWN CENTER 
17 WEST JEFFERSON ST. 
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND 
80 MAO 
801 270-8230 
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