Opinion ID: 217548
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Sierra Forest

Text: Sierra Forest similarly has standing to bring a facial NEPA challenge to the 2004 Framework, independent from specific implementing projects. Sierra Forest has challenged the 2004 Framework as an imminent source of harm to its members' interests in the area encompassed by the Basin, Slapjack and Empire projects within the Plumas National Forest, and there is no question that affidavits establish members' interests in those areas. For the reasons discussed above, a procedural NEPA violation is complete even before an implementing project is approved. Nor could the Forest Service cure flaws in an LRMP in the EIS for a site-specific project. See Pit River I, 469 F.3d at 785 ([D]ilatory or ex post facto environmental review cannot cure an initial failure to undertake environmental review.). We have never held that an LRMP is not subject to facial attack based on an alleged NEPA violation.