officials and citizens before decisions are made and before actions are taken ... public scrutiny [is] essential to implementing NEPA. 40 C.F.R. § 1500.1(b). They go on to state that federal agencies shall to the fullest extent possible ... [e]ncourage and facilitate public involvement in decisions which affect the quality of the hum Supp. 1546, 1548 (D.Or.1991) (finding likelihood of success on the merits and granting temporary restraining order based on finding that agency appeared to have made “no effort to make public the environmental assessment ... in which the [agency] concluded that there would be no significant environmental impact as a result of the ... project.”); Friends of Walker Creek Wetlands, Inc. v. Bureau of Land Mgmt., 19 Envtl. L. Rep. 20852, 20852 (D.Or.1988) (<HOLDING>). Defendants simply respond that plaintiffs
holding five day public comment period on a portion of an ea insufficient remanding for further public comment holding that significant involvement of government agency charged with protecting public environmental interest satisfies public participation requirement in certain circumstances holding that the agency failed to provide for any public participation in the ea process and ordering 45 day period for public comment on ea holding that an ea did not need to assess the effects of correcting an error in the applicable forest plan because the purpose of an ea is to provide information for determining whether prospective projects may have significant environmental impacts holding that public meeting did not satisfy public participation requirement because public did not receive adequate notice