Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number No. 92-1606 Attorney(S) ARGUED: Wade Wallihan Massie, PENN, STUART, ESKRIDGE JONES, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellants. Katherine Leatherman Adams, Environment and Natural Resources Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Stephen M. Hodges, PENN, STUART, ESKRIDGE JONES, Abingdon, Virginia; John R. Woodrum, SMITH, HEENAN ALTHEN, Washington, D.C., for Appellants. Vicki A. O'Meara, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Dirk D. Snel, Environment and Natural Resources Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Charles Gault, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Knoxville, Tennessee; Richard H. McNeer, Office of the Solicitor, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C.; Zane B. Scott, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF VIRGINIA, Big Stone Gap, Virginia, for Appellees. Judges Clyde H. Hamilton Acts Mineral Lands And Mining — Surface Mining Control And Reclamation — Control Of The Environmental Impacts Of Surface Coal Mining — Judicial Review See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. PITTSTON COAL COMPANY; CLINCHFIELD COAL COMPANY, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. BRUCE BABBITT, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS ENERGY, DIVISION OF MINE LAND RECLAMATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES. Substituted for former Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan pursuant to Fed.R.App.P. 43(c). HAMILTON, Circuit Judge: Appellants Pittston Company (Pittston) and Clinchfield Coal Company (Clinchfield) brought this action asserting that the proposed denial of their applications for mining permits violated their procedural due process rights. Appellees Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, and the Commonwealth of Virginia moved to dismiss the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1). The district court granted the motion, holding that, pursuant to 30 U.S.C Section(s) 1276(a)(1), the case could only be brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Pittston Co. v. Lujan, 798 F. Supp. 344, 353 (W.D.Va. 1992). Pittston and Clinchfield appeal. We have carefully examined the record, briefs, arguments of the parties, and the opinion of the district court. We agree with the district court that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction under 30 U.S.C. §(s) 1276(a)(1). Therefore, we affirm on the compelling reasoning of the district court. In view of this disposition, we deny the appellants' motion to continue to hold this case in abeyance, or alternatively, to allow supplemental briefing. AFFIRMED