Key legal question
Whether the appeal had become moot because the operating regulations had been replaced and amended
Extracted holding
The court left the question open, holding that the complaints failed in any event; the absence of a current protected interest did not require a different outcome.
Extracted reasoning
A new provisional operating regulation had already been approved, but if the current regime were unlawful, the old provisional rules would not revive automatically. In any event, the appeal lacked merit.