Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Input: deficient as to deprive the public of the ability to respond, when Tri-Valley CAREs itself relied upon that very document to specifically and publicly comment on the 2005 shipping incident? The purpose of an EA is not to compile an exhaustive examination of each and every tangential event that potentially could impact the local environment. Such a task is impossible, and never-ending. The purpose of the EA is simply to create a workable public document that briefly provides evidence and analysis for an agency's finding regarding an environmental impact. 40 C.F.R. 1508.9; League of Wilderness Defenders Blue Mountains Biodiversity Proje ient manner to put the opposing party on notice are deemed waived. Swierkiewicz v. Sorema, N.A., 534 U.S. 506, 512, 122 S.Ct. 992, 152 L.Ed.2d 1 (2002) (<HOLDING>). c. The 2008 Security Assessment NEPA requires
Holding statements: (A) holding that generally arguments not briefed on appeal are deemed abandoned or waived (B) holding that arguments not raised before the trial court are waived (C) holding that claims must put parties on sufficient notice of underlying arguments or arguments are deemed waived (D) holding that arguments not raised in district court are waived (E) holding arguments not raised on appeal waived
Output:
(C)