What is the test for determining whether an action has been approved by a federal agency?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Te-Moak Tribe Of W. Shoshone Of Nev. v. United States Dep't Of The Interior, No. 07-16336, No. CV-05-00279-LRH (9th Cir. 2010):
The arbitrary and capricious standard "requires us to ensure that an agency has taken the requisite hard look at the envi-ronmental consequences of its proposed action, carefully reviewing the record to ascertain whether the agency decision is founded on a reasoned evaluation of the relevant factors." Greenpeace Action v. Franklin, 14 F.3d 1324, 1332 (9th Cir. 1992) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted).
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