COUNTY OF ORANGE v. PUB. SERV. COMM.


39 A.D.2d 311 (1972)

County of Orange, Petitioner, v. Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Respondent. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Intervenor-Respondent Towns of Wallkill, Hamptonburgh, Chester, Mount Hope, Petitioners, v. Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Respondent. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Intervenor-Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

July 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter G. Striphas, County Attorney, for County of Orange, petitioner.

Schleider & Owen (Joseph G. Owen of counsel), for Town of Wallkill and others, petitioners.

Peter H. Schiff (Joel Yohalem, Herbert S. Brown and Arthur D. Rheingold of counsel), for respondent.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & Macrae (Carl D. Hobelman, Leon A. Allen, Jr., and Jacob Friedlander of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.

MUNDER, Acting P. J., LATHAM, GULOTTA and BRENNAN, JJ., concur.


BENJAMIN, J.

Responding to current concern for the despoilment of our environment and our fast-growing needs for gas and electric power, in 1970 the Legislature enacted article 7 (§§ 120 through 130) of the Public Service Law (L. 1970, ch. 272, § 2), which established new procedures for the siting of major utility transmission facilities.1 Evincing a clear intent to...

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