The following excerpt is from Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Johnson, 629 F.2d 239 (2nd Cir. 1980):
1) whether the agency action is final in a functional sense, even though other agency actions may follow, cf. Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner, 387 U.S. 136, 150-51, 87 S.Ct. 1507, 1516-1517, 18 L.Ed.2d 681 (1967) (discussing cases finding final agency action where agencies promulgated general policies but had not yet applied them to specific individuals);
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