In Butte Environmental Council v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, No. 09-15363 (9th Cir. June 1, 2010), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that it is appropriate for the Corps to consider an applicant’s project purpose, and that an area of a species’ critical habitat can be destroyed without appreciably diminishing the value of the species’ critical habitat overall.
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