SCENIC HUDSON PRESERV. CONF. v. FEDERAL POWER COM'N

Nos. 1033-1038, Dockets 35678, 35676, 35677, 35683, 35688 and 35689.

453 F.2d 463 (1971)

SCENIC HUDSON PRESERVATION CONFERENCE et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Respondent, and Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Town of Cornwall and Village of Cornwall, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 22, 1971.

Rehearing and Hearing Denied November 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd K. Garrison, New York City (Albert K. Butzel, Paul Weiss, Goldberg, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference.

Philip Weinberg, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Cyril H. Moore, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for petitioner Palisades Interstate Park Comm.

Eugene Margolis, New York City (J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel, Evelyn Junge, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner City of New York.

Lloyd K. Garrison, New York City (David Sive, Sigmund Anderman, Bertram Braufman, Winer, Neuburger & Sive, New York City, on the brief), for Petitioner The Sierra Club and its Atlantic Chapter.

Lloyd K. Garrison, New York City (James Marshall, Henry Winestine, Marshall, Bratter, Greene, Allison & Tucker, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner The Wilderness Society.

Lloyd K. Garrison, New York City (Angus Macbeth, John H. Adams, New York City, National Resources Defense Council, Inc., on the brief), for petitioners Izaak Walton League of America, National Audubon Society and National Parks and Conservation Assn.

Gordon Gooch, Gen. Counsel (J. Richard Tiano, Asst. Sol., Leonard D. Eesley, Asst. Gen. Counsel, John D. Lane, Raymond E. Hagenlock, Charles K. Barrow, Attys., F. P. C., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Cameron F. MacRae, New York City (Carl D. Hobelman, G. S. Peter Bergen, Sheila H. Marshall, Jeffrey E. Silver, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, on the brief), for intervenor Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

James R. Loeb, Rider, Weiner & Loeb, Newburgh, N. Y., on the brief, for intervenor Town of Cornwall.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Hearing En Banc Denied November 26, 1971.

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

By Opinion No. 584, dated August 19, 1970, the Federal Power Commission granted a license to Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., to construct, operate, and maintain a pumped storage project along the western shore of the Hudson River at Cornwall, New York. Eight parties1 have filed petitions pursuant to Section 313(b) of the Federal Power Act...

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