SCIENTISTS' INST. FOR PUB. INFO., INC. v. ATOMIC ENERGY COM'N

No. 72-1331.

481 F.2d 1079 (1973)

SCIENTISTS' INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION, INC., Appellant, v. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. G. Speth, with whom Ronald J. Wilson, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. Kent Frizzell and Martin R. Hoffmann, Peter A. Bernard Gen. Counsel, Jerome Nelson, Sol., Atomic Energy Comm., and Thomas L. McKevitt and Peter R. Steenland, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees.

John D. Hoffman, San Francisco, Cal., filed a brief on behalf of Sierra Club and Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, Inc. as amici curiae urging reversal.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and WILKEY, Circuit Judges.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Appellant claims that the Atomic Energy Commission's Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor program involves a "recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment * * *" under Section 102(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. § 4332(C) (1970), and that the Commission is therefore required to issue a "detailed statement...

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